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שִׁית

𐤔𐤉𐤕

shîyth

H7897 noun

SILEX Entry

Root שׁית to put, set, place

Definition

A garment or article of clothing, particularly a robe, dress, or piece of attire worn as an outer covering. Used in the sense of formal or distinctive clothing, especially in ceremonial, festive, or dignified contexts. The term also denotes attire or apparel more generally, with emphasis on what is put on or donned.

Semantic Range

dress, garment, attire, robe, apparel, piece of clothing

Root / Etymology

Derived from the root שִׁית (š-y-t), meaning 'to set, place, put, lay.' The noun is directly associated with what is 'put on' the body—i.e., attire or a garment. The root conveys the idea of placing or setting something in a position, here understood as clothing that is put on the person.

Historical & Contextual Notes

שִׁית appears rarely in the Hebrew Bible and is used descriptively for apparel, often in contexts emphasizing the dignity or formality of dress, such as in descriptions of royal or priestly clothing (e.g., Job 41:5 [Heb. v.13], Isaiah 63:1). It is largely synonymous with earlier or more common terms like בֶּגֶד (beged, 'garment') or לְבוּשׁ (levush, 'clothing'), but tends to appear in poetic or rhetorical passages, highlighting the act of donning or the status conferred by the garment. Later translations (Greek, Latin, and English) use various terms such as 'attire' or 'robe,' though these may obscure the link to the action of 'putting on.' The word does not carry the connotation of religious or ethnic identity that later terms like 'vestment' or 'Jewish attire' might suggest in post-biblical contexts.

Original Strong's Gloss (1890)

from שִׁית; a dress (as put on); attire.

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Root Family

שית (š-y-t) — to put, set, place

Strong's Lemma SIBI-P1
H6246 עֲשִׁת I will set
H7896 שִׁית I will set
H7898 שַׁיִת wild overgrowth
H8351 שֵׁת Appointed One
H8352 שֵׁת Appointed One

Word Forms

1 distinct form

SIDANCE Surface Transliteration Morphology Common SIBI-P1 SIBI-P2 Occurrences
H7897-01 שִׁ֝֗ית shit HNcmsc as a garment garment of 2

Occurrences in Scripture

2 occurrences

SIDANCE Reference Word Transliteration Morphology Common SIBI-P1 SIBI-P2
H7897-01 Psalms 73:6 שִׁ֝֗ית shit HNcmsc as a garment garment of
H7897-01 Proverbs 7:10 שִׁ֥ית shit HNcmsc with the attire garment of
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