To clothe
לְבֵשׁStrong’s H3848levash (le-vash)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Levash is the Aramaic word usually translated “clothed”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”
Meaning
- To be clothed(P'al) to be clothed · (Aphel) to clothe someone
How it's translated
- he will be clothed 1
- you will be clothed 1
- and they clothed 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 3
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Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 5:16In contextAnd I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.
- Daniel 5:29In contextThen commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
Aramaic dictionary
לְבֵשׁ levash · to clothe
1) to be clothed 1a) (P'al) to be clothed 1b) (Aphel) to clothe someone
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “clothe” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CLOTHE, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive clothed, or clad. [See Cloth.]
- To put on garments; to invest the body with raiment; to cover with dress, for concealing nakedness and defending the body from cold or injuries.
- To cover with something ornamental.
- To furnish with raiment; to provide with clothes; as, a master is to feed and clothe his apprentice.d
- To put on; to invest; to cover, as with a garment; as, to clothe thoughts with words.“I will clothe her priests with salvation” Psalms 132:16“Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags” Proverbs 23:21“Let them be clothed with shame” Psalms 35:26
All definitions and other forms of “clothe”
- To invest; to surround; to encompass.
- To invest; to give to by commission; as, to clothe with power or authority.
- To cover or spread over; as, the earth is clothed with verdure.
CLOTHE, verb intransitive
To wear clothes.
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.