בֶּגֶד
beged · garment, clothing
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H899 · appears 217 times in the Bible
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beged (בֶּגֶד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “garment, clothing”.
Cloth. (A word with the same letters means "treachery".)
How to say it
be·ged
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
- A garment with which someone covers the body, or a blanket for warmth.
- Another word spelled the same: deceiving someone who trusts you.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Word study
Garment, clothing. BDB defines it as a covering, that is, clothing; and also, from another root, treachery or pillage. The verb בָּגַד, be unfaithful, has its own note (H898).
- Clothing that is left behind or caught hold of Genesis 39:12
- Tearing one's clothes as a sign of mourning Genesis 37:292 Samuel 13:31
- The holy garments of the priest Exodus 28:2
- Washing garments to be purified Leviticus 11:25
- Fringes on the edges of garments Numbers 15:38
- “Betrayal”, a word from another root Isaiah 24:16
Historical and cultural background
Tearing one's clothes was the reaction to a death or a disaster: Reuben when he did not find Joseph (Genesis 37:29), David when he heard of the death of his sons (2 Samuel 13:31).
How we translate it
“Garments” 102 times, “clothes” 53, “garment” 42, “cloth” 7, “clothing” 6. For the priest and in the laws it uses “garments”; in the stories, “clothes” (“he tore his clothes”). In Isaiah 24:16 it is translated “betrayal”, because there the word comes from בָּגַד, “be unfaithful”.
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- garments ×102
- clothes ×53
- garment ×42
- cloth ×7
- clothing ×6
- robes ×4
- betrayal ×2
- blankets ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis×14
- Exodus×23
- Leviticus×55
- Numbers×20
- Deuteronomy×1
- Judges×5
- 1 Samuel×4
- 2 Samuel×8
- 1 Kings×4
- 2 Kings×20
- 2 Chronicles×6
- Ezra×2
- Nehemiah×1
- Esther×2
- Job×3
- Psalms×4
- Proverbs×4
- Ecclesiastes×1
- Isaiah×14
- Jeremiah×5
- Ezekiel×14
- Joel×1
- Amos×1
- Haggai×1
- Zechariah×4
- Genesis 24:53
The servant brought out objects of silver and objects of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah; and costly gifts he gave to her brother and to her mother.
- Genesis 27:15
Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.
- Genesis 27:27
So he came near and kissed him; and he smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said, “See, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that YHWH has blessed.
- Genesis 28:20
Jacob made a vow, saying, “If Elohim is with me and keeps me on this way that I am going, and gives me bread to eat and clothing to wear,
- Genesis 37:29
Reuben returned to the cistern, and look, Joseph was not in the cistern; and he tore his clothes.
- Genesis 38:14
She removed her widow’s garments from her, covered herself with a veil, wrapped herself, and sat at the entrance of Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife.
- Genesis 38:19
She arose and went away and removed her veil from her and put on her widow’s garments.
- Genesis 39:12
She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me.” But he left his garment in her hand and fled and went outside.
- Genesis 39:13
When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled outside,
- Genesis 39:15
When he heard that I raised my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled and went outside.”
- Genesis 39:16
She laid his garment beside her until his lord came home.
- Genesis 39:18
But when I raised my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled outside.”
- Genesis 41:42
Then Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand and put it on the hand of Joseph; he clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a chain of gold around his neck.
- Exodus 28:2
You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for honor and for beauty.
- Exodus 28:3
And you shall speak to all the wise of heart, whom I have filled with a spirit of wisdom, that they make the garments of Aaron to consecrate him to serve as priest for me.
- Exodus 28:4
These are the garments that they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a checkered tunic, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and for his sons to serve as priests for me.
- Exodus 29:5
You shall take the garments and clothe Aaron with the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastpiece, and gird him with the woven band of the ephod.
- Exodus 29:21
You shall take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the oil of anointing and sprinkle it on Aaron and on his garments, and on his sons and on the garments of his sons with him; and he shall be holy, and his garments, and his sons and the garments of his sons with him.
- Exodus 29:29
The holy garments that are Aaron's shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them and to be ordained in them.
- Exodus 31:10
and the woven garments, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons to serve as priests;
- Exodus 35:19
the woven garments for ministering in the Holy Place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons to serve as priests.’”
- Exodus 35:21
And they came, every man whose heart stirred him, and everyone whose spirit moved him, and they brought the contribution of YHWH for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments.
- Exodus 39:1
And from the blue and the purple and the scarlet they made woven garments for ministering in the Holy Place; and they made the holy garments that were for Aaron, as YHWH had commanded Moses.
- Exodus 39:41
the woven garments for ministering in the Holy Place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons to serve as priests.
- Exodus 40:13
And you shall clothe Aaron with the holy garments, and anoint him and consecrate him, so that he may serve as priest to me.
- Leviticus 6:11
Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments, and bring out the ashes to outside the camp, to a clean place.
- Leviticus 6:27
Whatever touches its flesh will become holy; and when some of its blood spatters on a garment, the part on which it spattered you shall wash in a holy place.
- Leviticus 8:2
“Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the oil of anointing, and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,
- Leviticus 8:30
Moses took some of the oil of anointing and some of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons and on his sons’ garments with him; so he consecrated Aaron, his garments, and his sons and his sons’ garments with him.
- Leviticus 10:6
Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Do not let the hair of your heads hang loose and do not tear your garments, so that you do not die and he does not become angry with all the community; but your brothers, all the house of Israel, shall weep over the burning that YHWH has kindled.
- Leviticus 11:25
And whoever carries any of their carcasses shall wash his garments and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 11:28
And whoever carries their carcasses shall wash his garments and be unclean until the evening; they shall be unclean for you.
- Leviticus 11:32
And anything on which any of them falls when they are dead will be unclean, whether any article of wood or garment or skin or sack, any article with which work is done; it shall be put into water, and it will be unclean until the evening; then it will be clean.
- Leviticus 11:40
And whoever eats of its carcass shall wash his garments and be unclean until the evening; and whoever carries its carcass shall wash his garments and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 13:6
The priest shall examine him on the seventh day a second time, and if the sore has faded and the sore has not spread in the skin, the priest shall declare him clean; it is an eruption; he shall wash his garments and be clean.
- Leviticus 13:34
The priest shall examine the ringworm on the seventh day, and if the ringworm has not spread in the skin and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, the priest shall declare him clean; he shall wash his garments and be clean.
- Leviticus 13:45
And the leper who has the sore —his garments shall be torn, and the hair of his head shall hang loose, and he shall cover himself up to the mustache and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’
- Leviticus 13:47
And when a garment has a mark of leprosy, in a garment of wool or in a garment of linen,
- Leviticus 13:49
and if the mark is greenish or reddish in the garment or in the skin, or in the woven material or in the knitted material or in any article of skin, it is a mark of leprosy, and it shall be shown to the priest.
- Leviticus 13:51
He shall examine the mark on the seventh day; if the mark has spread in the garment or in the woven material or in the knitted material or in the skin, for whatever the skin is made for use, the mark is a malignant leprosy; it is unclean.
And 177 more times.