Genesis 24:65
For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
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Vail
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2 Corinthians 3:16
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
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18 occurrences in 16 verses.
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פֹּרֶכֶת
pôreketh · po-reh'-keth
25 times translated as this KJV form25 total Strong's occurrences
a separatrix, i.e. (the sacred) screen
Strong's KJV usage: vail.
Strong's first: Exodus 26:31Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 3:14
Open full H6532 profile →κάλυμα
kályma · kal'-oo-mah
4 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a cover, i.e. veil
Strong's KJV usage: :--vail.
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 3:13Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 3:16
Open full G2571 profile →מַסְוֶה
maçveh · mas-veh'
3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a veil
Strong's KJV usage: vail.
Strong's first: Exodus 34:33Strong's last: Exodus 34:35
Open full H4533 profile →צָעִיף
tsâʻîyph · tsaw-eef'
3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a veil
Strong's KJV usage: vail.
Strong's first: Genesis 24:65Strong's last: Genesis 38:19
Open full H6809 profile →מִטְפַּחַת
miṭpachath · mit-pakh'-ath
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a wide cloak (for a woman)
Strong's KJV usage: vail, wimple.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ruth 3:15Strong's last: Ruth 3:15
Open full H4304 profile →מַסֵּכָה
maççêkâh · mas-say-kaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form28 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a pouring over, i.e. fusion of metal (especially a cast image); by implication, a libation, i.e. league; concretely a coverlet (as if poured out)
Strong's KJV usage: covering, molten (image), vail.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 25:7Strong's last: Isaiah 25:7
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H6809
For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
H6809
And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.
H6809
And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
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vail
VAIL, noun [Latin velum, from velo, to cover, to spread over. It is correctly written vail for e, in Latin, is our adjective ]
1. Any kind of cloth which is used for intercepting the view and hiding something; as the vail of the temple among the Israelites.
2. A piece of thin cloth or silk stuff, used by females to hide their faces. In some eastern countries, certain classes of females never appear abroad without vails.
3. A cover; that which conceals; as the vail of oblivion.
4. In botany, the membranous covering of the germen in the Musci and Hepaticae; the calypter.
5. Vails, money given to servants. [Not used in America.]
VAIL, verb transitive [Latin velo.] To cover; to hide from the sight; as, to vail the face.
VAIL, verb transitive
1. To let fall.
They stiffly refused to vail their bonnets.
[I believe wholly obsolete.]
2. To let fall; to lower; as, to vail the topsail. obsolete
3. To let fall; to sink. obsolete
VAIL, verb intransitive To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding.
Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor's necessity. obsolete
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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