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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Apparel

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

28exact KJV occurrences 22Old Testament 6New Testament 15books containing the word 11mapped Strong's IDs 27occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Judges 17:10

And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

1 Peter 3:3

Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where apparel appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

GreekG2689
καταστολή

katastolḗ · kat-as-tol-ay'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

a deposit, i.e. (specially) costume

Strong's KJV usage: :--apparel.

Strong's first: 1 Timothy 2:9Strong's last: 1 Timothy 2:9

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HebrewH1264
בְּרוֹם

bᵉrôwm · ber-ome'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

damask (stuff of variegated thread)

Strong's KJV usage: rich apparel.

Strong's first: Ezekiel 27:24Strong's last: Ezekiel 27:24

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HebrewH4254
מַחֲלָצָה

machălâtsâh · makh-al-aw-tsaw'

1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

a mantle (as easily drawn off)

Strong's KJV usage: changeable suit of apparel, change of raiment.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Isaiah 3:22Strong's last: Isaiah 3:22

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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28 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Judges 17:10
H899

And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.

1 Samuel 27:9
H899

And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.

2 Samuel 1:24
H3830

Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.

2 Samuel 12:20
H8071

Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.

2 Samuel 14:2
H899

And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:

1 Kings 10:5
H4403

And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.

2 Chronicles 9:4
H4403

And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.

2 Chronicles 9:4
H4403

And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.

Ezra 3:10
H3847

And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.

Esther 5:1
no direct Strong's tag

Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.

Esther 6:8
H3830

Let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head:

Esther 6:9
H3830

And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.

Esther 6:10
H3830

Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.

Esther 6:11
H3830

Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.

Esther 8:15
H3830

And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.

Isaiah 3:22
H4254

The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,

Isaiah 4:1
H8071

And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

Isaiah 63:1
H3830

Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.

Isaiah 63:2
H3830

Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?

Ezekiel 27:24
H1264

These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.

Zephaniah 1:8
H4403

And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.

Zechariah 14:14
H899

And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.

Acts 1:10
G2066

And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;

Acts 12:21
G2066

And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them.

Acts 20:33
G2441

I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

apparel

APPAR'EL, noun [Latin paro, apparo, to prepare; Heb. bara]

1. Clothing; vesture; garments; dress.

2. External habiliments or decorations; appearance; as, religion appears in the natural apparel of simplicity.

Glorious in apparel Isaiah 63:1.

3. The furniture of a ship, as sails, rigging, anchors, etc.

APPAR'EL, verb transitive

1. To dress or clothe.

They who are gorgeously appareled are in kings court.

Luke 7:25.

2. To adorn with dress.

She did apparel her apparel

3. To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to cover, as with garments; as, trees appareled with flowers; or a garden with verdure.

4. To furnish with external apparatus; as ships appareled for sea.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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