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מַלְבּוּשׁ

malbush · clothing, garment

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4403 · appears 8 times in the Bible

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What it means

malbush (מַלְבּוּשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “clothing, garment”.

Garment, clothing: what someone has on.

How to say it

mal·bush

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. The clothing someone wears; fine dress as a sign of wealth.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • clothing ×6
  • garments ×2

Where it appears

  • 1 Kings 10:5

    and the food of his table, and the seating of his servants, and the station of his attendants and their clothing, and his cupbearers, and his burnt offering that he offered at the house of YHWH; and there was no more spirit in her.

  • 2 Kings 10:22

    He said to the one who was over the wardrobe, “Bring out garments for all the worshipers of Baal.” And he brought out the garments for them.

  • 2 Chronicles 9:4

    the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the station of his attendants and their clothing, his cupbearers and their clothing, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of YHWH; and there was no more spirit in her.

  • Job 27:16

    Though he heap up silver like dust, and prepare garments like clay,

  • Isaiah 63:3

    “The winepress I have trodden alone, and from the peoples there was no man with me; and I trod them in my anger, and trampled them in my fury; and their juice spattered on my garments, and all my clothing I have stained.

  • Ezekiel 16:13

    And you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth; fine flour and honey and oil you ate; and you became beautiful exceedingly, and you prospered to royalty.

  • Zephaniah 1:8

    “And it will happen on the day of the sacrifice of YHWH that I will call to account the officials and the sons of the king and all who wear foreign clothing.

And 1 more times.