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Quilt

כָּבִירStrong’s H3523

kevir (ke-vir)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Kevir is the Hebrew word usually translated “quilt of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.”
1 Samuel 19:13 KJV
Meaning
  1. (something) netted, a quilt, fly net, pillow
How it's translated
  • quilt of 1
  • and quilt of 1

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

Where it's used most
  • 1 Samuel 2

1 book in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

כָּבִיר kevir · quilt

(something) netted, a quilt, fly net, pillow

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

QUILT, noun

[Latin culcita.]

    All definitions and other forms of “quilt”

      QUILT, verb transitive

      1. To stitch together two pieces of cloth with some soft and warm substance between them; as a quilted bedcover; a quilted coat.
      2. To sew in the manner of a quilt

      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.