Robe
מַחֲלָצָהStrong’s H4254machalatsah (ma-cha-la-tsah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Machalatsah is the Hebrew word usually translated “robes”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.”
Meaning
- Robe of state
How it's translated
- the robes 1
- robes 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
- Zechariah 1
2 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מַחֲלָצָה machalatsah · robe
robe of state
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “rob” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ROB, noun
All definitions and other forms of “rob”
ROB, verb transitive
- In law, to take from the person of another feloniously, forcibly and by putting him in fear; as, to rob a passenger on the road.
- To seize and carry from any thing by violence and with felonious intent; as, to rob a coach; to rob the mail.
- To plunder; to strip unlawfully; as, to rob an orchard; to rob a man of his just praise.
- To take away by oppression or by violence.“ROB not the poor because he is poor” Proverbs 22:22
- To take from; to deprive.
- In a loose sense, to steal; to take privately without permission of the owner.
- To withhold what is due. Malachi 3:8
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.