Proverbs 23:21
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
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Rags
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Jeremiah 38:12
And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
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מָלָח
mâlâch · maw-lawkh'
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a rag or old garment
Strong's KJV usage: rotten rag.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 38:11Strong's last: Jeremiah 38:12
Open full H4418 profile →בֶּגֶד
beged · behg'-ed
1 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.
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Strong's first: Isaiah 64:6Strong's last: Isaiah 64:6
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qeraʻ · keh'-rah
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a rag
Strong's KJV usage: piece, rag.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 23:21Strong's last: Proverbs 23:21
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H4418
So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
H4418
And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
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rag
RAG, noun [Gr. a torn garment; tear; a rupture, a rock, a crag; to tear asunder.]
1. Any piece of cloth torn from the rest; a tattered cloth, torn or worn till its texture is destroyed. Linen and cotton rags are the chief materials of paper.
2. Garments worn out; proverbially, mean dress.
Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Proverbs 23:21.
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
3. A fragment of dress.
RAG. verb transitive
To scold; to rail. [Local.]
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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