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
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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.
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Strong's first: Proverbs 23:21Strong's last: Proverbs 23:21
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For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
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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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