לְבוּשׁ levush

Hebrew word for “clothing” · Strong’s H3830 · used 33 times in 33 verses

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Meaning

clothing, garment, apparel, raiment; Aramaic equivalent: le.vush (לְבוּשׁ "garment" H3831)

How it is translated

Glosses given for levush in context, with how often each is used:

• clothing 29
• like clothing 2
• clothes 1
• clothed 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Esther 6 (4), Job 24 (2), Job 38 (2), Proverbs 31 (2), Isaiah 63 (2), Genesis 49 (1), 2 Samuel 1 (1), 2 Samuel 20 (1), 2 Kings 10 (1), Esther 4 (1)

Forms

• לבושׁ 7
• לבושׁי 4
• לבשׁו 3
• הלבושׁ 3
• לבושׁה 3
• בלבושׁ 2
• לבושׁו 2
• כלבושׁ 2
• ללבושׁך 2
• לבושׁכן 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with levush more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• לָבֵשׁ lavash “to clothe” 4
• סוּס sus “horse” 4
• אַרְגָּמָן argaman “purple” 3
• בֶּגֶד beged “garment” 4
• שַׂק saq “sackcloth” 3
• מׇרְדֳּכַי mordekhay “Mordecai” 3
• בְּלִי beli “without” 3
• רָכַב rakhav “to ride” 3
• זָהָב zahav “gold” 4
• כְּסוּת kesut “covering” 2
• יְקָר yeqar “preciousness” 2
• עָרוֹם arom “naked” 2

Key verses

The verses using levush that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Esther 8:15 — 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…
• Job 31:19 — If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
• Psalms 35:13 — But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
• Psalms 45:13 — The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
• Psalms 102:26 — They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
• Psalms 104:6 — Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
• Proverbs 31:22 — She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.
• Isaiah 14:19 — But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the…
• Isaiah 63:1 — 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…
• Jeremiah 10:9 — Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their…
• Lamentations 4:14 — They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
• Malachi 2:16 — For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.