Cloth
מַכְבֵּרStrong’s H4346makhbar (makh-bar)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Makhbar is the Hebrew word usually translated “coverlet”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.”
Meaning
- Netted cloth or coverlet
How it's translated
- the coverlet 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מַכְבֵּר makhbar · cloth
netted cloth or coverlet
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cloth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CLOTH, noun
- A manufacture or stuff of wool or hair, or of cotton, flax, hemp or other vegetable filaments, formed by weaving or intertexture of threads, and used for garments or other covering and for various other purposes; as woolen cloth linen cloth cotton cloth hair cloth
- The covering of a table; usually called a tablecloth.
- The canvas on which pictures are drawn.
- A texture or covering put to a particular use; as a cloth of state.
All definitions
- Dress; raiment. [See Clothes.]
- The covering of a bed.
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.