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Garment

מַלְבּוּשׁStrong’s H4403

malbush (mal-bush)

Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Malbush is the Hebrew word usually translated “clothes their”, “clothing” and “clothes my”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.

“And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.”
1 Kings 10:5 KJV
Meaning
  1. Clothing, apparel, vestments, raiment, attire
How it's translated
  • and clothes their 3
  • clothing 2
  • the clothing 1
  • clothes my 1
  • and clothing your 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 1 Kings 1
  • 2 Kings 1
  • 2 Chronicles 1
  • Job 1
  • Isaiah 1
  • Ezekiel 1

7 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

מַלְבּוּשׁ malbush · garment

clothing, apparel, vestments, raiment, attire

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.

  1. “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.