Lexical Summary gedil: twisted threads Original Word: גְּדִלTransliteration: gedil Phonetic Spelling: (ghed-eel') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: twisted threads Meaning: thread, a tassel, festoon Strong's Concordance fringe, wreath From gadal (in the sense of twisting); thread, i.e. A tassel or festoon -- fringe, wreath. see HEBREW gadal Brown-Driver-Briggs H1434. gedil גְּדִלִים noun [masculine] plural twisted threads (Late Hebrew גְּדִיל, Babylonian gidlu, cord on which onions were strung, a string of onions, ZehnpfBAS i. 511; Aramaic גְּדִילָא, thread, cord, rope, also plaited locks, id.) — 1 tassels Deuteronomy 22:12 on border of garment ("" צִיצִת Numbers 15:38-39,). 2 festoons, on capitals of columns 1 Kings 7:17. |