shul denotes a garment’s edge, especially a robe’s decorated border or skirts that are lifted and uncovered.

The attested usage chiefly concerns the edge or border of a garment: it is ornamented on a robe, fills the temple in Isaiah’s vision, and can be associated with uncleanness. A smaller group of passages places the garment edge in acts of lifting or uncovering skirts, exposing shame or nakedness.

1. Garment border or robe edge · dominant

   In Exodus 28:33 the construct plural forms name the part of the robe on which pomegranates and gold bells are placed; the APB renders the clause "upon its hem." Exodus 28:34, Exodus 39:24, Exodus 39:25, and Exodus 39:26 likewise place alternating bells and pomegranates on the robe’s edge, while Isaiah 6:1 says that the Lord’s hems filled the temple.

   Exodus 28:33Exodus 28:34Exodus 39:24Exodus 39:25Exodus 39:26Isaiah 6:1
2. Skirt edge in exposure and disgrace · occasional

   Jeremiah 13:22 and Jeremiah 13:26 place the construct plural form in clauses where skirts are uncovered or lifted over the face. Nahum 3:5 similarly joins the uncovered garment edge to the nations seeing nakedness and dishonor; the APB renders the clause "I will uncover your hem upon your face."

   Jeremiah 13:22Jeremiah 13:26Nahum 3:5

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term with "hem" or "hems" in the robe and temple scenes, and with "skirts" in Jeremiah. In Lamentations 1:9 it also reads "hems"; these renderings reflect the verse contexts.