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Garment

לְבוּשׁStrong’s H3831

levush (le-vush)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Levush is the Aramaic word usually translated “clothes their” and “clothing his”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.”
Daniel 3:21 KJV
Meaning
  1. Garment, clothing
How it's translated
  • and clothes their 1
  • clothing his 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Daniel 2

1 book in all.

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Aramaic dictionary

לְבוּשׁ levush · garment

garment, clothing Aramaic of le.vush (לְבוּשׁ "clothing" H3830)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

G'ARMENT, noun

Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. Garments, in the plural, denotes clothing in general; dress.

  1. “No man putteth a piece of new cloth to an old garment” Matthew 9:16

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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.