levush · garment

What it means

levush (לְבוּשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “garment”.

Clothing.

How to say it

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 that covers the body and shows who a person is and what place he holds.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• clothing ×14
• garment ×7
• robe ×5
• apparel ×2
• clothed ×2
• garments ×2
• he wore ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• 2 Samuel×2
• 2 Kings×1
• Esther×6
• Job×7
• Psalms×6
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×1
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Malachi×1

• Genesis 49:11

  Binding his foal to the vine, and his donkey’s colt to the choice vine, he washes his garment in wine and his robe in the blood of grapes.

• 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 20:8

  They were at the great stone that is in Gibeon, and Amasa came before them. Joab was girded with the garment he wore, and over it was a belt with a sword fastened on his waist in its sheath; and as he went out, it fell out.

• 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.

• Esther 4:2

  and he came as far as the front of the king’s gate, for no one could enter the gate of the king in clothing of sackcloth.

• Esther 6:8

  let them bring a royal robe that the king has worn, and a horse that the king has ridden, and on whose head a royal crown has been set;

• Esther 6:9

  and let the robe and the horse be given into the hand of a man from among the king’s officials, the nobles, and let them clothe the man whom the king delights to honor, and let them make him ride on the horse through the square of the city, and proclaim before him, ‘Thus it will be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!’”

• Esther 6:10

  And the king said to Haman, “Hurry, take the robe and the horse, as you have spoken, and do so to Mordecai the Jew who sits in the king’s gate; do not let anything fall from all that you have spoken.”

• Esther 6:11

  And Haman took the robe and the horse, and clothed Mordecai, and made him ride through the square of the city, and proclaimed before him, “Thus it will be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!”

• Esther 8:15

  And Mordecai went out from before the king in a royal robe of blue and white cloth, and with a great golden crown and a mantle of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted for joy and was glad.

• Job 24:7

  Naked they spend the night without clothing, and they have no covering in the cold.

• Job 24:10

  Naked they go about without clothing, and hungry, they carry the sheaf.

• Job 30:18

  With great force my garment is disfigured; like the collar of my tunic it binds me.

• Job 31:19

  if I saw anyone perishing for lack of clothing, and no covering for the needy,

• Job 38:9

  when I made the cloud its garment and thick cloud its swaddling band,

• Job 38:14

  It is changed like clay under a seal, and things stand out like a garment.

• Job 41:13

  Who has uncovered the face of its garment? Into its double bridle who will enter?

• Psalms 22:18

  They divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.

• Psalms 35:13

  But I, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I afflicted with fasting my soul, and my prayer to my bosom would return.

• Psalms 45:13

  All glorious is the daughter of the king within; of settings of gold is her clothing.

• Psalms 69:11

  And I made sackcloth my clothing, and I became to them a byword.

• Psalms 102:26

  They will perish, but you will remain; and all of them like a garment will wear out; like clothing you will change them, and they will pass away.

• Psalms 104:6

  With the deep as with a garment you covered it; above the mountains the waters stood.

• Proverbs 27:26

  the lambs are for your clothing, and the price of a field the male goats,

• Proverbs 31:22

  Coverings she makes for herself; fine linen and purple are her clothing.

• Proverbs 31:25

  Strength and splendor are her clothing, and she laughs at the day to come.

• Isaiah 14:19

  but you have been cast out away from your grave like a loathed shoot, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a corpse trampled underfoot.

• Isaiah 63:1

  Who is this who comes from Edom, with garments dyed red from Bozrah, this one glorious in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I, speaking in righteousness, great to save.”

• Isaiah 63:2

  Why is your apparel red, and your garments like those of one who treads in the winepress?

• Jeremiah 10:9

  Silver beaten flat is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of a craftsman and of the hands of a goldsmith; blue and purple is their clothing, the work of wise men all of them.

• Lamentations 4:14

  They wandered blind through the streets, defiled with blood, so that no one could touch their garments.

• Ezekiel 9:11

  And look, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn at his waist, brought back word, saying, “I have done according to all that you commanded me.”

• Malachi 2:16

  For he hates divorce, says YHWH, Elohim of Israel, and the one who covers his garment with violence, says YHWH Tsevaot. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not betray.