Lexical Summary meil: a robe Original Word: מְעִילTransliteration: meil Phonetic Spelling: (meh-eel') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a robe Meaning: a robe Strong's Concordance cloak, coat, mantle, robe From ma'al in the sense of covering; a robe (i.e. Upper and outer garment) -- cloke, coat, mantle, robe. see HEBREW ma'al Brown-Driver-Briggs H4598. meil מְעִיל noun masculine1 Samuel 2:19 robe (Thes conjecture original meaning cover for √ מעל, compare בגד; Ba ES 15 compare Arabic an outer garment, but against this StaThLz, Apr. 28, 1894, 235); — ׳מ Exodus 28:31 18t.; suffix מְעִילוֺ 1 Samuel 15:27; מְעִלוֺ Job 1:20; 2:12 4t. singular; plural מְעִילִים 2 Samuel 13:18, (but strike out We Klo Kit Bu SS; original gloss מֵעוֺלָם We Kit Bu); מְעִילֵיהֶם Ezekiel 26:16; — exterior garment, robe, worn over the inner tunic כְּתֹנֶת ׃ 1 worn by men of rank: Saul and Jonathan 1 Samuel 18:4; 24:5; 24:12 (twice in verse); princes of the sea Ezekiel 26:16; Job Job 1:20; 2:12; Samuel 1 Samuel 15:27; 28:14; Ezra Ezra 9:3, 5; David clothed with ׳מ בוץ 1 Chronicles 15:27 (in the procession of the ark); the child Samuel had קָטֹן׳מ 1 Samuel 2:19; — (it had a skirt כנף 15:27; 24:5; 24:12 (twice in verse)). 2 worn by the daughters of David 2 Samuel 13:18 (but probably strike out, see above) 3 robe of high priest (only P): הָאֵפוֺד מְעִיל, made of purple stuff, Exodus 28:31; 29:5; 39:22; ומעיל אפוד 28:4; הַמְּעִיל Leviticus 8:7, having הַמְּעִיל שׁוּלֵי skirts Exodus 28:34; 39:24-25, 26, around which were alternate coloured pomegranates and golden bells, and הַמְּעִיל מִּי, an opening or hole by which it might be drawn over the head 39:28. 4 figurative of attributes (of ׳י, and of men), קנאה Isaiah 59:17; צדקה 61:10; משׁפט Job 29:14; בשׁת Psalm 109:29. II. מַ֫עַל see below עלה. מֵעַל see עַל. p. 751, 758f [מֹ֫עַל], מַעֲלָה מַעֲלֶה, see below עלה. [מַעֲלָל מַעֲלִיל,] see עלל. [מַעֲמָד], מָעֳמָד see עמד. מַעֲמָסָה see עמס. מַעֲמַקִּים see עמק. מַ֫עַן see מַעֲנֶה below I. עָנָה. מַעֲנִית מַעֲנָה, מַעֲנֶה, see I. ענה. מְעֹנָה see עון. |
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