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Strong's #3847: labash (pronounced law-bash')

or labesh {law-bashe'}; a primitive root; properly, wrap around, i.e. (by implication) to put on a garment or clothe (oneself, or another), literally or figuratively:--(in) apparel, arm, array (self), clothe (self), come upon, put (on, upon), wear.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ / ׁ

lâbash / lâbêsh

1) to dress, wear, clothe, put on clothing, be clothed

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to put on clothes, be clothed, wear

1a2) to put on, be clothed with (figuratively)

1b) (Pual) to be fully clothed

1c) (Hiphil) to clothe, array with, dress

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 111 times:

Esther 6:9: "of the king's princes, that they may array the man withal whom"
Esther 6:11: "the apparel and the horse, and arrayed and brought him on horseback through the street"
Job 7:5: "My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken,"
Job 8:22: "They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to naught."
Job 10:11: " Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews."
Job 27:17: "He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver."
Job 29:14: " I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem."
Job 29:14: "I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem."
Job 39:19: "Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?"
Job 40:10: "thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty."
Psalms 35:26: "together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame that magnify themselves against"
Psalms 65:13: "The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy,"
Psalms 93:1: "The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength,"
Psalms 93:1: "he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, the world also"
Psalms 104:1: "my God, thou art very thou art clothed with honor and majesty."
Psalms 109:18: " As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil"
Psalms 109:29: "Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle."
Psalms 132:9: "Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy."
Psalms 132:16: " I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy."
Psalms 132:18: "His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish."
Proverbs 23:21: "and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags."
Proverbs 31:21: "for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet."
Song of Solomon 5:3: "my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed how"
Isaiah 4:1: "We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name,"
Isaiah 22:21: " And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand:"
Isaiah 49:18: "saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride"
Isaiah 50:3: " I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering."
Isaiah 51:9: "Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake,"
Isaiah 52:1: "Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful"
Isaiah 52:1: "put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful O Jerusalem, the holy"
Isaiah 59:17: " For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on"
Isaiah 59:17: "and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on of vengeance for clothing, and was clad"
Isaiah 61:10: "my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed of salvation, he hath covered"
Jeremiah 4:30: "what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, thou deckest thee with ornaments"
Jeremiah 46:4: "with your helmets; furbish and put on the brigandines."
Ezekiel 7:27: "The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people"
Ezekiel 9:2: "in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn"
Ezekiel 9:3: "the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which"
Ezekiel 9:11: "And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side,"
Ezekiel 10:2: "And he spoke unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in"
Ezekiel 10:6: "that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, fire"
Ezekiel 10:7: "and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it, and went out."
Ezekiel 16:10: " I clothed thee also with embroidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered"
Ezekiel 23:6: " Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men,"
Ezekiel 23:12: "the Assyrians her neighbors, captains and rulers clothed horsemen riding upon"
Ezekiel 26:16: "their robes, and put off their embroidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon"
Ezekiel 34:3: "Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill"
Ezekiel 38:4: "thine army, and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armor, even a great company"
Ezekiel 42:14: "they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach"
Ezekiel 44:17: "the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with garments; and no wool"









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