H7640 H7640
flowing skirt or train of a garment
This word denotes the lower, flowing portion of a woman's garment—what we might call a train or skirt. It appears in Isaiah's prophecy against Babylon, where personified Babylon is commanded to strip off her train and cross rivers barefoot, symbolizing humiliation and exile. The image conveys the removal of dignified, modest covering. The Spanish 'falda' (skirt) captures the basic meaning, though the Hebrew suggests specifically the flowing, trailing portion that would need to be lifted when wading through water.
Senses
1. sense 1 — The flowing lower portion or train of a woman's garment that trails behind when walking. Isaiah 47:2 uses this in a command to personified Babylon to remove her train and wade through rivers—imagery of humiliation and loss of dignity. The multilingual glosses (Spanish 'falda,' English 'skirt') point to the garment's lower portion, which would become heavy and cumbersome when wet. 1×
AR["ذَيْلَكِ"]·ben["পোশাকের-প্রান্ত"]·DE["[שבל]"]·EN["the-skirt"]·FR["[שבל]"]·heb["שובל"]·HI["लहंगा"]·ID["kain-panjangmu"]·IT["[שבל]"]·jav["sinjang"]·KO["옷자락을"]·PT["saia"]·RU["подол"]·ES["falda"]·SW["nguo"]·TR["etegini"]·urd["گھاگرا"]
Related Senses
G0846 1. third-person pronoun reference (5552×)H???? 1. (4670×)H6213a 1. do, perform, act (2383×)G4160 1. do, act, perform (473×)H5221 1. Hifil: to strike in battle, smite enemies (362×)H0899b 1. garment, article of clothing (216×)H6213a 2. make, construct, fabricate (148×)H3772 1. cut a covenant / make a pact (97×)H5060 1. touch physically (Qal) (96×)H3615 1. complete a task (Piel) (85×)H3772 2. cut off / destroy (Hifil causative) (81×)H3920 1. capture, seize (Qal) (76×)H???? 12. (76×)H3772 3. be cut off / be eliminated (Niphal) (74×)H6213a 3. be done, be made (Niphal) (73×)G4160 2. make, construct, create (62×)H3847 1. Qal: put on, wear (60×)H8210 1. pour out (liquid/libation) (59×)G2440 1. garment or clothing (general) (54×)H4191 4. kill / put to death (Hifil causative) (50×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† שֹׁ֫בֶל n.[m.] flowing skirt, train;—abs. חֶשְׂפִּי־שׁ׳ Is 47:2 strip off (thy) train.