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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H6532
Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:
H6532
Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
H6532
Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.
H6532
And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it:
H6532
Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
H4304
Also he said, Bring the vail that thou hast upon thee, and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her: and she went into the city.
H6532
And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
H4541
And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
G2571
And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
G2571
But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
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But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
G2571
But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
G2571
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
English meaning and historical usage.
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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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