Topic
Vail or Veil
12 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 24:65Torrey WAS WORN — As a token of modesty
For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
- Genesis 38:14Torrey A covering for the head usually worn by women
And she put her widow’s garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.
- Exodus 34:33Torrey Moses put one on to conceal the glory of his face
And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.
- Song of Songs 5:7Torrey The removing of, considered rude and insolent
The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
- Isaiah 3:23Torrey Removing of, threatened as a punishment to ungodly women
The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
- Isaiah 25:7Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of the spiritual blindness of the Gentile nations
And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
- 1 Corinthians 11:3Torrey WAS WORN — As a token of subjection
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
- 1 Corinthians 11:6Torrey WAS WORN — As a token of subjection
For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
- 1 Corinthians 11:7Torrey WAS WORN — As a token of subjection
For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
- 1 Corinthians 11:10Torrey WAS WORN — As a token of subjection
For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.
- 2 Corinthians 3:13Torrey Moses put one on to conceal the glory of his face
And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
- 2 Corinthians 3:14–16Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of the spiritual blindness of the Jewish nation
But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. Nevertheless when it…
In the topical indexes
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 13 references, grouped by sub-topic
- A covering for the head usually worn by women Ge 38:14
- WAS WORN
- The removing of, considered rude and insolent So 5:7
- Removing of, threatened as a punishment to ungodly women Isa 3:23
- Moses put one on to conceal the glory of his face Ex 34:33; 2Co 3:13
- ILLUSTRATIVE
- Of the spiritual blindness of the Gentile nations Isa 25:7
- Of the spiritual blindness of the Jewish nation 2Co 3:14-16
Texts: Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.