A cloth
ῥάκοςStrong’s G4470rhakos
Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament
In short
Rhakos is the Greek word usually translated “cloth”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.
“No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.”
Meaning
Usually translated “cloth”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- of cloth 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Matthew 1
- Mark 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Greek dictionary
ῥάκος rhakos · a cloth
ῥάκος, -ους, τό [in LXX: Isa.64:6 (5) (בֶּגֶד), Jer.38:11 (סְחָבָה), Est.4:17 * ;] 1. a ragged garment (Hom.). 2. a rag, remnant, piece of cloth: Mat.9:16, Mrk.2:21.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cloth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CLOTH, noun
- A manufacture or stuff of wool or hair, or of cotton, flax, hemp or other vegetable filaments, formed by weaving or intertexture of threads, and used for garments or other covering and for various other purposes; as woolen cloth linen cloth cotton cloth hair cloth
- The covering of a table; usually called a tablecloth.
- The canvas on which pictures are drawn.
- A texture or covering put to a particular use; as a cloth of state.
All definitions
- Dress; raiment. [See Clothes.]
- The covering of a bed.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.