Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
garment
Usage: 1) garment, outer garment, wrapper, mantle 1a) garment, outer garment
Salmah means “dress” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H8008 שַׂלמָה (salmah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. salmah (sal-maw') n-f. 1. a dress [transp. for H8071] It has 16 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include raiment, garments, garment, and clothes. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
salmah (sal-maw') n-f. 1. a dress [transp. for H8071] KJV: clothes, garment, raiment. Root(s): H8071
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garment
Usage: 1) garment, outer garment, wrapper, mantle 1a) garment, outer garment
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render salmah, 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.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
16 indexed usages in Old Testament.
For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.
If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.
First 16 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8008.
For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.
If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.
And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.
And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.
And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field:
And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:
And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H8008, grouped by book.
Salmah (Strong's H8008) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "dress". salmah (sal-maw') n-f. 1. a dress [transp. for H8071]
This page currently indexes 16 linked usages for Strong's H8008 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8008 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as raiment, garments, garment, and clothes. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.