Definition

properly, a sandal tongue; by extension a sandal or slipper (sometimes as a symbol of occupancy, a refusal to marry, or of something valueless)

Etymology

or (feminine) נַעֲלָה; from H5274 (נָעַל);

Word family

• נָעַל nâʻal

How the KJV renders it

• dryshod
• (pair of) shoe((-latchet)
• -s)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.