Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
clothing
Usage: clothing, garment, apparel, raiment Aramaic equivalent: le.vush (לְבוּשׁ "garment" H3831)
Lebush means “garment” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G3830 — pandocheus (“host”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H3830 לְבוּשׁ לְבוּשׁ (lbuwsh) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. lbuwsh (leb-oosh') (or lbush {leb-oosh'}) n-m. 1. a garment (literally or figuratively) 2. (by implication) (euphem.) a wife It has 32 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include garment, clothing, apparel, garments, and clothes. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
lbuwsh (leb-oosh') (or lbush {leb-oosh'}) n-m. 1. a garment (literally or figuratively) 2. (by implication) (euphem.) a wife [from H3847] KJV: apparel, clothed with, clothing, garment, raiment, vestment, vesture. Root(s): H3847
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clothing
Usage: clothing, garment, apparel, raiment Aramaic equivalent: le.vush (לְבוּשׁ "garment" H3831)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render lbuwsh, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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32 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
First 32 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3830.
Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
And he said unto him that was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments.
And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
Let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head:
And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.
Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.
Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.
And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.
She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.
Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.
But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.
They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
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Lebush (Strong's H3830) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "garment". lbuwsh (leb-oosh') (or lbush {leb-oosh'}) n-m. 1. a garment (literally or figuratively) 2. (by implication) (euphem.) a wife
This page currently indexes 32 linked usages for Strong's H3830 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3830 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as garment, clothing, apparel, garments, clothes, and vestments. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.