Rag
סְחָבָהStrong’s H5499sechavah (se-cha-vah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sechavah is the Hebrew word usually translated “clothes”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.”
Meaning
- Rag, clout (stuff pulled or dragged about)
How it's translated
- clothes 1
- the clothes 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 2
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
סְחָבָה sechavah · rag
rag, clout (stuff pulled or dragged about)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “rag” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RAG, noun
[Gr. a torn garment; tear; a rupture, a rock, a crag; to tear asunder.]
- Any piece of cloth torn from the rest; a tattered cloth, torn or worn till its texture is destroyed.
- Garments worn out; proverbially, mean dress.“Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags” Proverbs 23:21
- A fragment of dress.
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.