טבול

Uncertain. Klein and Leslau^[1] suggest Ge'ez ጠብለለ (ṭäblälä, “to fold up, roll up, wrap, swathe”) as a cognate.

• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /tˤăˈvul/ [tˤăˈvuːl]
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /teˈvul/ [tvul]

טְבוּל • (t'vúl) m (plural indefinite טְבוּלִים) [pattern: קְטוּל]

1. (biblical, hapax legomenon) turban
   • Tanach, Ezekiel 23:15, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     חֲגוֹרֵי אֵזוֹר בְּמׇתְנֵיהֶם סְרוּחֵי טְבוּלִים בְּרָאשֵׁיהֶם מַרְאֵה שָׁלִשִׁים כֻּלָּם דְּמוּת בְּנֵי־בָבֶל כַּשְׂדִּים אֶרֶץ מוֹלַדְתָּם׃

     girded with belts round their waists, and with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers—a picture of Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea.

The word only occurs once in the Bible, in the plural form. Strong suggests טָבוּל (tavúl, literally “dipped”) for the singular form, analyzing it as a passive participle of טָבַל (tavál, “to immerse, dip”), while others suggest טְבוּל (t'vúl).

• H2871 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Klein, Ernest (1987), “טְבוּל”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 239
• Brown, Francis; Driver, Samuel Rolles; Briggs, Charles Augustus (1906), “טבול”, in A Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (BDB), Oxford: Clarendon Press