יְרִיעָהyᵉrîyʻâh
curtain (Exodus 26:2; Exodus 26:1; 1 Chronicles 17:1; Exodus 26:7; Habakkuk 3:7)
Pronunciation: yer-ee-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3407
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 54 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 26:1 “Make the Tabernacle from ten curtains of finely woven linen. Decorate the curtains with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and with skillfully embroidered cherubim.
- Exodus 26:2 These ten curtains must all be exactly the same size—42 feet long and 6 feet wide.
- Exodus 26:3 Join five of these curtains together to make one long curtain, then join the other five into a second long curtain.
- Exodus 26:4 Put loops of blue yarn along the edge of the last curtain in each set.
- Exodus 26:5 The fifty loops along the edge of one curtain are to match the fifty loops along the edge of the other curtain.
- Exodus 26:6 Then make fifty gold clasps and fasten the long curtains together with the clasps. In this way, the Tabernacle will be made of one continuous piece.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).