Garment
מָ֫דוּStrong’s H4063medev (me-dev)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Medev is the Hebrew word usually translated “robes their”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.”
Meaning
- Garment
How it's translated
- robes their 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מָ֫דוּ medev · garment
garment
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.