לָבַשׁ
lavash · put on, clothe
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3847 · appears 110 times in the Bible
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lavash (לָבַשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “put on, clothe”.
Put on clothing, wear; clothe someone.
How to say it
la·vash
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
- To cover the body with clothes: to put on what one is to wear.
- To put clothes on someone else, sometimes as an honor or a help.
- YHWH's spirit wraps someone like a garment.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Word study
To clothe, to put on clothing; figuratively, to put on a quality or to be clothed by the spirit. From the same root is לְבוּשׁ, “garment”.
- YHWH clothed Adam and his wife Genesis 3:21
- Clothing someone: Pharaoh clothes Joseph, Saul clothes David Genesis 41:421 Samuel 17:38
- The garments of the priests Exodus 28:41Leviticus 16:4
- “The spirit of YHWH clothed Gideon” Judges 6:34
- Clothing oneself with righteousness, strength, salvation Job 29:14Psalms 93:1Isaiah 61:10
How we translate it
“Clothed” 44 times, “put on” 27, “clothe” 19, “wear” 8, “put them” 4, “dressed” 2… With the spirit, this edition sets רוּחַ יְהוָה לָבְשָׁה = “the spirit of YHWH clothed” (Judges 6:34; and “the spirit clothed Amasai”, 1 Chronicles 12:18), keeping the image.
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- clothed ×44
- put on ×27
- clothe ×19
- wear ×8
- put them ×4
- dressed ×2
- has worn ×1
- shall I put it on ×1
- she put ×1
- used to dress ×1
- others ×2
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis×6
- Exodus×6
- Leviticus×11
- Numbers×2
- Deuteronomy×2
- Judges×1
- 1 Samuel×4
- 2 Samuel×3
- 1 Kings×2
- 1 Chronicles×1
- 2 Chronicles×7
- Ezra×1
- Esther×6
- Job×8
- Psalms×10
- Proverbs×2
- Song of Songs×1
- Isaiah×10
- Jeremiah×2
- Ezekiel×15
- Daniel×3
- Jonah×1
- Zephaniah×1
- Haggai×1
- Zechariah×4
- Genesis 3:21
And YHWH Elohim made for Adam and for his wife garments of skin and clothed them.
- 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 27:16
And the skins of the young goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
- 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 38:19
She arose and went away and removed her veil from her and put on her widow’s garments.
- 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 28:41
You shall clothe with them Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, and anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, that they may 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 29:8
His sons you shall bring near and clothe them with tunics.
- Exodus 29:30
Seven days the priest who succeeds him from among his sons shall wear them, the one who goes into the tent of meeting to minister in the Holy Place.
- 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.
- Exodus 40:14
And his sons you shall bring near and clothe them with tunics.
- Leviticus 6:10
The priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put on linen undergarments on his flesh; and he shall take up the ashes left when the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and put them beside the altar.
- 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 8:7
He put on him the tunic, girded him with the sash, clothed him with the robe, put on him the ephod, and girded him with the band of the ephod, and bound it to him with it.
- Leviticus 8:13
Moses brought near the sons of Aaron, clothed them with tunics, girded them with sashes, and bound caps on them, as YHWH had commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 16:4
He shall put on a holy linen tunic, and linen undergarments shall be on his body, and he shall tie a linen sash around him, and wrap his head with a linen turban; they are holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water and put them on.
- Leviticus 16:23
Then Aaron shall come into the tent of meeting and take off the linen garments that he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and leave them there.
- Leviticus 16:24
And he shall bathe his body in water in a holy place and put on his garments, and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make expiation for himself and for the people.
- Leviticus 16:32
And the priest who is anointed and ordained to serve as priest in place of his father shall make expiation; he shall put on the linen garments, the holy garments.
- Leviticus 21:10
And the priest who is high among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been ordained to wear the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose and shall not tear his garments.
- Numbers 20:26
and strip Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son; and Aaron shall be gathered to his people and die there.”
- Numbers 20:28
And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.
- Deuteronomy 22:5
A man’s article shall not be on a woman, and a man shall not put on a woman’s garment, for an abomination to YHWH your Elohim is everyone who does these things.
- Deuteronomy 22:11
You shall not put on mixed cloth, wool and linen together.
- Judges 6:34
The spirit of YHWH clothed Gideon, and he blew the horn, and Abiezer was summoned after him.
- 1 Samuel 17:5
A helmet of bronze was on his head, and with a coat of scales he was clothed; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze.
- 1 Samuel 17:38
Saul clothed David with his garment, and put a helmet of bronze on his head, and clothed him with a coat of armor.
- 1 Samuel 28:8
Saul disguised himself and put on other clothes, and he went, and two men with him; they came to the woman by night. And he said, “Please divine for me by calling up the dead, and bring up for me the one I name to you.”
- 2 Samuel 1:24
Daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet with luxuries, who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.
- 2 Samuel 13:18
She was wearing a long robe, for so the king’s virgin daughters used to dress, in robes. His attendant brought her outside and bolted the door after her.
- 2 Samuel 14:2
Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman, and he said to her, “Please mourn; put on, please, mourning clothes and do not anoint yourself with oil, and be like a woman who has been mourning for the dead for these many days.
- 1 Kings 22:10
Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, dressed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
- 1 Kings 22:30
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and go into the battle; but you, wear your robes.” And the king of Israel disguised himself and went into the battle.
- 1 Chronicles 12:18
Then the spirit clothed Amasai, head of the captains: “We are yours, David, and with you, son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, and peace to the one who helps you, for your Elohim helps you.” And David received them and set them among the heads of the band.
- 2 Chronicles 5:12
and the Levites, the singers, all of them, Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, clothed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and lyres, were standing east of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests sounding the trumpets;
- 2 Chronicles 6:41
And now, arise, YHWH Elohim, to your rest, you and the ark of your strength. Let your priests, YHWH Elohim, be clothed with salvation, and let your faithful ones rejoice in what is good.
- 2 Chronicles 18:9
Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, dressed in their robes; they were sitting at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
- 2 Chronicles 18:29
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and go into the battle; but you, wear your robes.” And the king of Israel disguised himself and they went into the battle.
- 2 Chronicles 24:20
The spirit of Elohim clothed Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people and said to them, “Thus says Elohim: ‘Why are you transgressing the commandments of YHWH? You will not prosper; because you have abandoned YHWH, he has abandoned you.’”
And 70 more times.