Strong's H8071

שִׂמְלָה

Transliteration

simlâh

Pronunciation

sim-law'

Definition

a dress, especially a mantle

KJV usage

apparel, cloth(-es, -ing), garment, raiment. Compare H8008 (שַׂלְמָה).

Derivation

perhaps by permutation for the feminine of H5566 (סֶמֶל) (through the idea of a cover assuming the shape of the object beneath);

From Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890), Hebrew dictionary. Data: Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA.