Garment
שִׁיתStrong’s H7897shit
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shit is the Hebrew word usually translated “garment of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.”
Meaning
- Garment
How it's translated
- a garment of 1
- garment of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
- Proverbs 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁית shit · 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.