Garment
שַׂלְמָהStrong’s H8008salmah (sal-mah)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Salmah is the Hebrew word usually translated “garments”, “garment” and “cloak of”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.”
Meaning
- Garment, outer garment, wrapper, mantlegarment, outer garment
How it's translated
- and garments 3
- a garment 2
- cloak of 1
- in garment his 1
- clothes your 1
- garments our 1
- and with garments 1
- with a cloak 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 3
- 1 Kings 3
- Exodus 2
- Deuteronomy 2
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Nehemiah 1
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 22:26If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
- Deuteronomy 24:13In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.
- Deuteronomy 29:5And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
- Joshua 9:5And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.
- Joshua 9:13And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.
- Joshua 22:8And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.
Hebrew dictionary
שַׂלְמָה salmah · garment
1) garment, outer garment, wrapper, mantle 1a) garment, outer 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.