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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Apparel
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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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לְבוּשׁ
lᵉbûwsh · leb-oosh'
8 times translated as this KJV form32 total Strong's occurrences
a garment (literally or figuratively); by implication (euphemistically) a wife
Strong's KJV usage: apparel, clothed with, clothing, garment, raiment, vestment, vesture.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 1:24Strong's last: Isaiah 63:2
Open full H3830 profile →בֶּגֶד
beged · behg'-ed
4 times translated as this KJV form217 total Strong's occurrences
a covering, i.e. clothing; also treachery or pillage
Strong's KJV usage: apparel, cloth(-es, ing), garment, lap, rag, raiment, robe, × very (treacherously), vesture, wardrobe.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Judges 17:10Strong's last: Zechariah 14:14
Open full H899 profile →מַלְבּוּשׁ
malbûwsh · mal-boosh'
4 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
a garment, or (collectively) clothing
Strong's KJV usage: apparel, raiment, vestment.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Kings 10:5Strong's last: Zephaniah 1:8
Open full H4403 profile →ἐσθής
esthḗs · es-thace'
3 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
dress
Strong's KJV usage: :--apparel, clothing, raiment, robe.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 1:10Strong's last: James 2:2
Open full G2066 profile →שִׂמְלָה
simlâh · sim-law'
2 times translated as this KJV form29 total Strong's occurrences
a dress, especially a mantle
Strong's KJV usage: apparel, cloth(-es, -ing), garment, raiment. Compare 8008.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 12:20Strong's last: Isaiah 4:1
Open full H8071 profile →ἱμάτιον
himátion · him-at'-ee-on
1 times translated as this KJV form65 total Strong's occurrences
a dress (inner or outer)
Strong's KJV usage: :--apparel, cloke, clothes, garment, raiment, robe, vesture.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Peter 3:3Strong's last: 1 Peter 3:3
Open full G2440 profile →ἱματισμός
himatismós · him-at-is-mos'
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
clothing
Strong's KJV usage: :--apparel (X -led), array, raiment, vesture.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 20:33Strong's last: Acts 20:33
Open full G2441 profile →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
Open full G2689 profile →בְּרוֹם
bᵉrôwm · ber-ome'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
damask (stuff of variegated thread)
Strong's KJV usage: rich apparel.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 27:24Strong's last: Ezekiel 27:24
Open full H1264 profile →לָבַשׁ
lâbash · law-bash'
1 times translated as this KJV form111 total Strong's occurrences
properly, wrap around, i.e. (by implication) to put on a garment or clothe (oneself, or another), literally or figuratively
Strong's KJV usage: (in) apparel, arm, array (self), clothe (self), come upon, put (on, upon), wear.
Strong's first: Ezra 3:10Strong's last: Ezra 3:10
Open full H3847 profile →מַחֲלָצָה
machălâtsâh · makh-al-aw-tsaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
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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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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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