shul

The lexica are unanimous. BDB, HALOT, and DCH each give a single entry, "skirt, hem (of a robe)," subdividing only by context rather than by sense. The noun occurs 11 times in 10 verses, always in the plural construct, and is customarily derived from a root meaning to hang or let down; the etymology is uncertain and comparative proposals remain thin, but nothing in the dispute touches the referent. Five occurrences belong to the tabernacle instructions and their execution report (Exodus 28:33-34; 39:24-26), where alternating woven pomegranates and golden bells are fixed around the hem of the high priest's robe; Haran's treatment of the vestments is the standard discussion of the arrangement. Isaiah 6:1 applies the same noun to the train of the enthroned Lord's robe filling the temple, and the Isaiah commentaries (Wildberger) regularly note that the Septuagint paraphrases at this point, reading the house as full of his glory rather than rendering the garment term directly. The remaining occurrences are prophetic and figurative: Jeremiah 13:22, 26 and Nahum 3:5 pair the noun with verbs of uncovering and stripping in the judgment image of a personified city exposed as an adulteress, a picture Holladay and Christensen set against the public stripping penalties attested in ancient Near Eastern legal and treaty material; Lamentations 1:9 locates Zion's uncleanness in her skirts, an image of menstrual impurity clinging visibly to the garment rather than of forcible exposure.