Clothing

Usually translated “apparel”, “garment” and “garments”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• apparel 6
• garment 1
• garments 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Acts 3
• Luke 2
• James 2

3 books in all.

• Clothing (levush)
• Clothing (himation)
• Clothing (himatismos)
• Clothing (enduma)

• Luke 24:4And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:
• Acts 1:10And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
• Acts 10:30And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,
• Acts 12:21And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them.
• James 2:2For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;
• James 2:3And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “clothing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.