Bible word study

Naal (Strong’s H5275): Meaning in the Bible

Naal (נַעַל) is the Hebrew word numbered H5275 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, a sandal tongue; by extension a sandal or slipper (sometimes as a symbol of occupancy, a refusal to marry, or of something valueless). In the King James Bible it is translated dryshod, (pair of) shoe((-latchet), -s)..

• Original wordנַעַל
• Transliterationnaʻal
• Pronunciationnah'-al
• Part of speechnoun (feminine) (n-f)
• Strong’s numberH5275
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. or (feminine) נַעֲלָה; from H5274;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Naal appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Naal (H5275) stands behind 22 English renderings in 22 verses across 11 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Deuteronomy (3), Joshua (3), Isaiah (3).

How the King James Bible renders Naal, by count

• shoes11 of 22 (50 percent)
• shoe9 of 22 (41 percent)
• dryshod1 of 22 (5 percent)
• shoelatchet1 of 22 (5 percent)

Three places to read Naal

• Genesis 14:23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
• Joshua 9:5 And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.
• Song of Solomon 7:1 How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Naal in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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