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Lexicon :: Strong's H646 - 'ēp̄ôḏ

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אֵפוֹד
Transliteration
'ēp̄ôḏ
Pronunciation
ay-fode'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably of foreign derivation
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 142.1a

Variant Spellings

Variant spellings for this word: אפוד (Strongs and Gesenius) אפד (Strongs)

Strong’s Definitions

אֵפוֹד ʼêphôwd, ay-fode'; rarely אֵפֹד ʼêphôd; probably of foreign derivation a girdle; specifically the ephod or highpriest's shoulder-piece; also generally, an image:—ephod.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 49x

The KJV translates Strong's H646 in the following manner: ephod (49x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 49x
The KJV translates Strong's H646 in the following manner: ephod (49x).

  1. ephod

    1. priestly garment, shoulder-cape or mantle, outer garment

      1. worn by an ordinary priest and made of white stuff

      2. worn by the high priest - more costly, woven of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and linen threads provided with shoulder-pieces and a breast piece of like material, ornamented with gems and gold

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֵפוֹד ʼêphôwd, ay-fode'; rarely אֵפֹד ʼêphôd; probably of foreign derivation a girdle; specifically the ephod or highpriest's shoulder-piece; also generally, an image:—ephod.
STRONGS H646: Abbreviations
אֵפוֺד (28 times) & אֵפֹד (20 times) noun masculineExodus 28:7 ephod (Ethiopic አፋድ፡ compare Aramaic aXTdep   id. (on meaning see Lagl.c.), perhaps also Assyrian pid, pittu ZimBP 39; on form see Ges§ 84 a 12. R. but Lagl.c. compares وفاد, & thinks אֵפוֺד shortened from חֵשֶׁב הָא׳ 'robe of approach to God) — א׳ absolute Exodus 25:7 +; construct 1 Samuel 2:18 +; —
1. ephod, priestly garment, shoulder-cape or mantle;
a. as worn by ordinary priest made of white stuff (בַּד) 1 Samuel 22:18; נֹשֵׂא א׳ compare 2; so Samuel as a temple-servant 1 Samuel 2:8; חָגוּר א׳ girt with an ephod; so David when dancing before ark 2 Samuel 6:14 (id.) 1 Chronicles 15:27 וְעַל דוד א׳;
b. as prescribed in P for high priest, more costly, woven of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, & linen (? שֵׁשׁ)threads, provided with shoulder-pieces & breast-piece of like material, ornamented with gems and gold, Exodus 25:7; Exodus 28:4, 6, 12, 15; Exodus 29:5; Exodus 35:9, 27 + 17 times Exodus 28, 39, also Leviticus 8:7; compare probably 1 Samuel 2:28 (נֹשֵׂא א׳) 1 Samuel 14:3; 1 Samuel 21:10 (see below 2); חֵשֶׁב הָא׳ Exodus 28:27, 28; Exodus 29:5; Exodus 39:20, 21; Leviticus 8:7; מְעִיל הָא׳ Exodus 29:5; Exodus 39:22 (compare Leviticus 8:7); with verb עַל־ נָתַן אֶת־הָא׳ put the ephod on Aaron Leviticus 8:7.
2. ephod used in consulting י׳ 1 Samuel 23:6 א׳ borne in hand (read בְּיָדוֺ יָרַד וְהָא׳ Greek Version of the LXX We Dr) 1 Samuel 23:9; 1 Samuel 30:7 (twice in verse) (all with חִגִּישׁ) + 1 Samuel 14:18 (הגישׁ) & 1 Samuel 14:18, in both read הָא׳ for ארון & 1 Samuel 14:18 also נֹשֵׂא Greek Version of the LXX Klo Dr;
a. according to Thes MV Di Exodus 28:6 and elsewhere properly below 1b; consultation of י׳ in that case by Urim & Thummim in the breast-piece attached to the ephod (compare Exodus 28:28-30 & see אוּרִים); if so, in view of נשׂא 1 Samuel 2:28; 1 Samuel 14:3, 18 (compare above), not used elsewhere = wear except 1 Samuel 22:18, & of 1 Samuel 23:6, the word might be used by metonymy for the breast-piece itself;
b. others, e.g. StaGeschichte i. 466, 471 BuRS 115 and others, think of an image representing י׳; compare following.
3.
a. ephod of gold made by Gideon Judges 8:27 for a local sanctuary, by which Israel was ensnared; = 2b according to Syriac Version Thes ('sine controversia') Stu and others + Sta Bu l.c.; originally = gold sheathing of an image (compare etymology above & Isaiah 30:22 below אֲפֻדָּה); MV Be KöHauptprobleme 59 think of garment, as below 1 see above.
b. made (material not given) for a private, local sanctuary Judges 17:5; Judges 18:14, 17, 18, 20 (|| פֶּסֶל, מַסֵּכָה, תְּרָפִים in all, for Greek Version of the LXX gives מַסֵּכָה Judges 18:20, omitted by HCT); compare Hosea 3:4 Israel shall abide without king, prince, sacrifice, pillar, ephod or teraphim; according to Thes and others + Sta Bu l.c. = 2b; Stu Be Ry and others regard as below 1; in view of distinction from פסל, מסכה & תרפים it seems more likely that this is not an image, but some means of consulting deity, perhaps in imitation of Urim & Thummim.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

25:7; 25:7; 28; 28:4; 28:6; 28:6; 28:7; 28:12; 28:15; 28:27; 28:28; 28:28; 28:29; 28:30; 28:39; 29:5; 29:5; 29:5; 35:9; 35:27; 39:20; 39:21; 39:22

Leviticus

8:7; 8:7; 8:7; 8:7

Judges

8:27; 17:5; 18:14; 18:17; 18:18; 18:20; 18:20

1 Samuel

2:8; 2:18; 2:28; 2:28; 14:3; 14:3; 14:18; 14:18; 14:18; 14:18; 21:10; 22:18; 22:18; 23:6; 23:6; 23:9; 30:7

2 Samuel

6:14

1 Chronicles

15:27

Isaiah

30:22

Hosea

3:4

H646

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Strong's Number H646 matches the Hebrew אֵפוֹד ('ēp̄ôḏ),
which occurs 49 times in 39 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:7 - shoham stones, and stones to be set for the efod and for the breastplate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:4 - These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an efod, and a robe, and a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash: and they shall make holy garments for Aharon your brother, and his sons, that he may minister to me in the Kohen's office.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 28:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:6 - "They shall make the efod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 28:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:12 - You shall put the two stones on the shoulder-pieces of the efod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Yisra'el: and Aharon shall bear their names before the LORD on his two shoulders for a memorial.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 28:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:15 - "You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of the efod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, shall you make it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 28:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:25 - The other two ends of the two braided chains you shall put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the efod in the forepart of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 28:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:26 - You shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which is toward the side of the efod inward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 28:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:27 - You shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the efod underneath, in the forepart of it, close by the coupling of it, above the skillfully woven band of the efod.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 28:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:28 - They shall bind the breastplate by the rings of it to the rings of the efod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven band of the efod, and that the breastplate may not swing out from the efod.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 28:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:31 - "You shall make the robe of the efod all of blue.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:5 - You shall take the garments, and put on Aharon the coat, the robe of the efod, the efod, and the breastplate, and dress him with the skillfully woven band of the efod;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:9 - shoham stones, and stones to be set for the efod and for the breastplate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:27 - The rulers brought the shoham stones, and the stones to be set, for the efod and for the breastplate;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:2 - He made the efod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:7 - He put them on the shoulder-pieces of the efod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Yisra'el, as the LORD commanded Moshe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:8 - He made the breastplate, the work of a skillful workman, like the work of the efod; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:18 - The other two ends of the two braided chains they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the efod, in the front of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:19 - They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on the edge of it, which was toward the side of the efod inward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:20 - They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the efod underneath, in the front of it, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the efod.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:21 - They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the efod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the efod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the efod, as the LORD commanded Moshe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:22 - He made the robe of the efod of woven work, all of blue.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:7 - He put the coat on him, tied the sash on him, clothed him with the robe, put the efod on him, and he tied the skillfully woven band of the efod on him, and fastened it to him with it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:27 - Gid`on made an efod of it, and put it in his city, even in Ofrat: and all Yisra'el played the prostitute after it there; and it became a snare to Gid`on, and to his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:5 - The man Mikhah had a house of gods, and he made an efod, and terafim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his Kohen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:14 - Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Layish answered, and said to their brothers, Do you know that there is in these houses an efod, and terafim, and an engraved image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what you have to do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:17 - The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, and the efod, and the terafim, and the molten image: and the Kohen stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men girt with weapons of war.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:18 - When these went into Mikhah's house, and fetched the engraved image, the efod, and the terafim, and the molten image, the Kohen said to them, What do you?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:20 - The Kohen's heart was glad, and he took the efod, and the terafim, and the engraved image, and went in the midst of the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:18 - But Shemu'el ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen efod.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:28 - and did I choose him out of all the tribes of Yisra'el to be my Kohen, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an efod before me? and did I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Yisra'el made by fire?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:3 - and Achiyah, the son of Achituv, Ikhavod's brother, the son of Pinechas, the son of `Eli, the Kohen of the LORD in Shiloh, wearing an efod. The people didn't know that Yonatan was gone.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 21:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:9 - The Kohen said, The sword of Golyat the Pelishti, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the efod: if you will take that, take it; for there is no other except that here. David said, There is none like that; give it me.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:18 - The king said to Do'eg, Turn you, and fall on the Kohanim. Do'eg the Edomite turned, and he fell on the Kohanim, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore a linen efod.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 23:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:6 - It happened, when Avyatar the son of Achimelekh fled to David to Ke`ilah, that he came down with an efod in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 23:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:9 - David knew that Sha'ul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Avyatar the Kohen, Bring here the efod.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 30:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:7 - David said to Avyatar the Kohen, the son of Achimelekh, Please bring me here the efod. Avyatar brought there the efod to David.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 6:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:14 - David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen efod.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:27 - David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites who bore the ark, and the singers, and Kananyah the master of the song with the singers: and David had on him an efod of linen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 3:4 - For the children of Yisra'el shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without efod or idols.
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