בֶּגֶד beged

Hebrew word for “garment” · Strong’s H899 · used 217 times in 190 verses

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Meaning

(CLBL) garment, clothing (used indiscriminately)

Senses in the lexicon

• garment (215)
• treachery (2)

How it is translated

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

• garments 98
• clothes 60
• garment 20
• clothing 19
• covering 7
• like garment 4
• like a garment 3
• own clothes 2
• treachery 2
• garments? 1
• some of clothes 1

Where it is used

Also in 13 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Leviticus 13 (12), Leviticus 15 (11), Numbers 4 (7), Leviticus 16 (6), 2 Kings 5 (6), Genesis 39 (5), Numbers 19 (5), Leviticus 11 (4), Leviticus 14 (4), Exodus 28 (3)

Forms

• בגדיו 51
• בגדי 39
• בגדים 23
• בגד 17
• בגדו 11
• בגדיך 9
• הבגדים 7
• בבגד 7
• בגדיהם 7
• כבגד 6

Words used with it

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

• כָּבַס kavas “to wash” 34
• לָבֵשׁ lavash “to clothe” 32
• קָרַע qara “to tear” 29
• רָחַץ rachats “to wash” 20
• עֶרֶב erev “evening” 21
• טָמֵא tame “to defile” 20
• עוֹר or “skin” 17
• מַי mayim “water” 25
• כְּלִי keli “article/utensil” 18
• אַהֲרֹן aharon “Aaron” 18
• טָהֵר taher “be pure” 13
• קֹדֶשׁ qodesh “holiness” 17

Key verses

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

• Genesis 28:20 — And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
• Deuteronomy 24:17 — Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:
• 2 Kings 22:19 — Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants…
• Isaiah 51:6 — Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment,…
• Isaiah 52:1 — Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the…
• Isaiah 59:17 — For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with…
• Isaiah 61:10 — I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe…
• 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…
• Isaiah 64:6 — But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken…
• Jeremiah 12:1 — Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all…
• Ezekiel 18:7 — And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the…
• Joel 2:13 — And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and…

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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.