בֶּגֶד
beged · behg'-ed
a covering, i.e. clothing; also treachery or pillage
Lexicon
Derivation: from H898 (בָּגַד);
a covering, i.e. clothing; also treachery or pillage
- a covering, i.e. clothing
- also, treachery or pillage
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: apparel, cloth(-es, ing), garment, lap, rag, raiment, robe, [idiom] very (treacherously), vesture, wardrobe.
Letters
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the house, what is within › to carry, to lift up › the doorway, the way in
The house, what is within that works to carry, to lift up of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of בֶּגֶד above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
217 occurrences · 217 OT · 0 NT · 114 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- his clothes42 · 29%
- garments31 · 22%
- his garment9 · 6%
- of garments5 · 3%
- raiment5 · 3%
- a cloth4 · 3%
- in the garment4 · 3%
- like a garment3 · 2%
- their clothes3 · 2%
- his garments3 · 2%
- your clothes3 · 2%
- thy clothes3 · 2%
- the garments3 · 2%
- their garments3 · 2%
- and raiment3 · 2%
- of the wardrobe2 · 1%
- with their clothes2 · 1%
- of his garments2 · 1%
- clothes2 · 1%
- garment2 · 1%
- the cloths2 · 1%
- her clothes2 · 1%
- and the garments2 · 1%
- and his garments2 · 1%
- and upon his garments2 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.