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# מַלְבּוּשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4403

**raiment** — used 8 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

raiment [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4403/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַלְבּוּשׁ: n.m. raiment, attire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4403/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** \[מַלְבֻּשׁ\] n.m. Zp 1:8 raiment, attire;—abs. 2 K 10:22 + 2 times; sf. מַלְבּוּשֵׁךְ Ez 16:3; pl. sf. מַלְבּוּשַׁי Is 63:3; מַלְבּוּשֵׁיהֶם 2 Ch 9:4(×2), מַלְבֻּשֵׁיהֶם 1 K 10:5;—raiment, 2 K 10:22 (for worshippers, ‖ לְבוּשׁ), Jb 27:16 (as wealth); of Jerus. under fig. of infant Ez 16:13; מַל׳ נָכְרִי Zp 1:8 foreign attire (acc. with לָבַשׁ); pl. of garments of Sol.’s servants 1 K 10:5 = 2 Ch 9:4 a, + 2 Ch 9 4 b; of י׳ under fig. of warrior Is 63:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 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 (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: clothes (4); clothing (4).

## In the verses

[Job 27:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.27.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.27.16/#tree)

אִם־יִצְבֹּ֣ר כֶּעָפָ֣ר כָּ֑סֶף וְ֝כַחֹ֗מֶר יָכִ֥ין מַלְבּֽוּשׁ׃

*Word for word:* if he.will.heap.up like (the) dust silver and like (the) clay he.will.prepare clothing

*JPS 1917:* Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

[2 Kings 10:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.10.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.10.22/#tree)

וַיֹּ֗אמֶר לַֽאֲשֶׁר֙ עַל־הַמֶּלְתָּחָ֔ה הוֹצֵ֣א לְב֔וּשׁ לְכֹ֖ל עֹבְדֵ֣י הַבָּ֑עַל וַיֹּצֵ֥א לָהֶ֖ם הַמַּלְבּֽוּשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to \[the.one\].who \[was\].over the wardrobe bring.out clothing for all \[those.who\].serve (of \[the\].Baal and he.brought.out for them the clothing

*JPS 1917:* And he said unto him that was over the vestry: 'Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal.' And he brought them forth vestments.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4403/): 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).