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# לְבוּשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3830

**garment** — used 32 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

garment [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3830/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לְבוּשׁ: n.m. garment, clothing, raiment [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3830/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jb 30:18 garment, clothing, raiment (on format. cf. Ges§ 84 a, 12 LagBN 64, 179);—לְבוּשׁ abs. 2 K 10:22 + 9 times; cstr. לְבוּשׁ Est 4:2 + 2 times, לְבֻשׁ Is 14:19; sf. לְבוּשִׁי Jb 30:18 + 3 times; לְבוּשֶׁ֑ךָ Is 63:2; Pr 27:26; לְבוּשׁוּ Is 63:1; Jb 41:5, לְבֻשׁוֹ 2 S 20:8 + 2 times; לְבוּשָׁהּ ψ 45:14 + 2 times; לְבוּשְׁכֶן 2 S 1:24; לְבוּשָׁם Je 10:9; pl. sf. לְבֻשֵׁיהֶם La 4:14;—garment, clothing, Gn 49:11 (poem in J; ‖ סוּתֹה), Jb 24:7 (‖ כְּסוּת), v 10; 30:18; 31:19; Pr 27:26; ψ 22:19; La 4:14; of women’s raiment 2 S 1:24 Pr 31:22, also fig. עֹז וְהָדָר לְבוּשָׁהּ v 25; specif. of princess ψ 45:14; of warrior’s tunic 2 S 20:8, cf. Is 63:1, 2 (י׳ as warrior); raiment for worshippers 2 K 10:22; for mourners, לְבוּשִׁי שָׂ֑ק ψ 35:13, cf. 69:12; בִּלְבוּשׁ שָׂק Est 4:2; of royal apparel ל׳ מַלְכוּת Est 6:8; 8:15, cf. (without מ׳) 6:9, 10, 11; scaly coat of crocod. פְּנֵיּ לְבוּשׁוֹ Jb 41:5; cover garment with violence Mal 2:16, fig. of putting away a wife, cf. RSK, 269 We; in other fig. uses:—as changed ψ 102:27 (sim. of heavens and earth), as covering 104:6 (sim. of deep upon earth); of cloud as garment of sea Jb 38:9, sim. of terrestrial objects in the light v 14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 32 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: clothing (29); \[the\] clothing (1); clothes (1).

## In the verses

[Job 24:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.10/#tree)

עָר֣וֹם הִ֭לְּכוּ בְּלִ֣י לְב֑וּשׁ וּ֝רְעֵבִ֗ים נָ֣שְׂאוּ עֹֽמֶר׃

*Word for word:* naked they.go.about not clothing and hungry they.carry a.sheaf

*JPS 1917:* So that they go about naked without clothing, and being hungry they carry the sheaves;

[Job 38:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.14/#tree)

תִּ֭תְהַפֵּךְ כְּחֹ֣מֶר חוֹתָ֑ם וְ֝יִֽתְיַצְּב֗וּ כְּמ֣וֹ לְבֽוּשׁ׃

*Word for word:* it.is.changed like.\[the\] clay of.a.seal and they.stand.forth like clothing

*JPS 1917:* It is changed as clay under the seal; and they stand as a garment.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3830.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3830/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).