Clothing
לְבוּשׁStrong’s H3830levush (le-vush)
Appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Levush is the Hebrew word usually translated “clothing”, “clothing my” and “clothing his”. It appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament.
“Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:”
Meaning
- Clothing, garment, apparel, raiment
How it's translated
- clothing 5
- clothing my 4
- clothing his 3
- the clothing 3
- clothing her 3
- in clothing of 2
- clothing of 2
- clothing its 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 7
- Esther 6
- Psalms 6
- Proverbs 3
- Isaiah 3
- 2 Samuel 2
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 1:24Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
- 2 Samuel 20:8When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab’s garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
- 2 Kings 10:22And he said unto him that was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments.
- Esther 4:2And came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
- Esther 6:8Let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head:
- Esther 6:9And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.
Hebrew dictionary
לְבוּשׁ levush · clothing
clothing, garment, apparel, raiment Aramaic equivalent: le.vush (לְבוּשׁ "garment" H3831)
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.