Garment
מַדStrong’s H4055mad
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mad is the Hebrew word usually translated “garments his”, “garment his” and “cloth garments”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.”
Meaning
- Measure, cloth garmentmeasure · cloth, carpet · garment (outer)
How it's translated
- and garments his 2
- garments his 2
- garment his 1
- to garments his 1
- cloth garments 1
- robe his 1
- measure its 1
- like garment his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 4
- Judges 2
- Leviticus 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 3:16But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.
- Judges 5:10Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
- 1 Samuel 4:12And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.
- 1 Samuel 17:38And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.
- 1 Samuel 17:39And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.
- 1 Samuel 18:4And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
Hebrew dictionary
מַד mad · garment
1) measure, cloth garment 1a) measure 1b) cloth, carpet 1c) garment (outer)
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.
- “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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.