Clothing
אַדֶּ֫רֶתStrong’s H0155adderet (ad-de-ret)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Adderet is the Hebrew word usually translated “cloak of”, “cloak his” and “like a cloak of”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.”
Meaning
- Glory, cloakglory, splendour, magnificence (of a vine, shepherds) · mantle, cloak made of fur or fine material
How it's translated
- cloak of 3
- cloak his 3
- like a cloak of 1
- the cloak 1
- in cloak his 1
- splendor 1
- splendor their 1
- a cloak of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 3
- Joshua 2
- 1 Kings 2
- Zechariah 2
- Genesis 1
- Ezekiel 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 13:4In contextAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:
- Genesis 25:25And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.
- Joshua 7:21When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
- Joshua 7:24And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
- 1 Kings 19:13And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?
- 1 Kings 19:19So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.
Hebrew dictionary
אַדֶּ֫רֶת adderet · clothing
1) glory, cloak 1a) glory, splendour, magnificence (of a vine, shepherds) 1b) mantle, cloak made of fur or fine material 1b1) prophet's garment
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “clothing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CLOTHING, participle present
tense Covering with or putting on vestments of any kind; providing with garments; investing; covering.
All definitions and other forms of “clothing”
CLOTHING, noun
- Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering.
- The art or practice of making cloth.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.