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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G2066
For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;
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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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