שַׂלְמָה salmah

Hebrew word for “garment” · Strong’s H8008 · used 16 times in 16 verses

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Meaning

1) garment, outer garment, wrapper, mantle; 1a) garment, outer garment

How it is translated

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

• garments 6
• garment 3
• cloak 3
• clothes 2
• own clothes 1
• like garment 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Exodus 22 (2), Joshua 9 (2), 1 Kings 11 (2), Deuteronomy 24 (1), Deuteronomy 29 (1), Joshua 22 (1), 1 Kings 10 (1), 2 Chronicles 9 (1), Nehemiah 9 (1), Job 9 (1)

Forms

• ושׂלמות 3
• שׂלמה 2
• בשׂלמה 2
• שׂלמת 1
• בשׂלמתו 1
• שׂלמתיכם 1
• שׂלמותינו 1
• ובשׂלמות 1
• שׂלמתיהם 1
• שׂלמותי 1

Words used with it

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

• בָּלָה balah “to become old” 3
• נַעַל naal “sandal” 3
• חָדָשׁ chadash “new” 3
• נֶשֶׁק nesheq “weapon” 2
• פֶּרֶד pered “mule” 2
• שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 4
• רֶגֶל regel “foot” 3
• אֲחִיָּהוּ achiyyah “Ahijah” 2
• בֶּשֶׂם besem “spice” 2
• שׁוּב shuv “to return” 4
• זָהָב zahav “gold” 3
• כֶּסֶף keseph “silver” 3

Key verses

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

• Exodus 22:9 — For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the…
• Exodus 22:26 — If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
• Deuteronomy 24:13 — In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be…
• Deuteronomy 29:5 — And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
• Joshua 22:8 — And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron,…
• 1 Kings 10:25 — And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
• 1 Kings 11:29 — And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with…
• 2 Chronicles 9:24 — And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
• Nehemiah 9:21 — Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
• Job 9:31 — Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
• Psalms 104:2 — Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
• Song of Solomon 4:11 — Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

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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.