לְבוּשׁ
garment
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 1 time (50%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 1 time (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 2 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H3831 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Daniel 2 verses
- Daniel 3:21 וּ/לְבֻשֵׁי/ה֑וֹן conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their [other] garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
- Daniel 7:9 לְבוּשֵׁ֣/הּ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms I saw until thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat: his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, [and] the wheels of it burning fire.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
לבוש — transliterated lᵉbûwsh — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “garment.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 2 verses. Its uses cluster heavily in Daniel (100% of all occurrences). It first appears in Daniel 3:21. See the sense tree, 2-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3831 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 2 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Garment 1×, Other garments 1×
- American Standard Version: Other garments 1×, Raiment 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Clothing 1×, Other clothes 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Clothing 1×, Other clothing 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3831 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3831 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3831 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3831 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- garment, clothing
Word origin
n.m. Jb 30:18 garment, clothing, raiment (on format. cf. Ges§ 84 a, 12 LagBN 64, 179);—לְבוּשׁ abs. 2 K 10:22 + 9 times; cstr. לְבוּשׁ Est 4:2 + 2 times, לְבֻשׁ Is 14:19; sf. לְבוּשִׁי Jb 30:18 + 3 times; לְבוּשֶׁ֑ךָ Is 63:2; Pr 27:26; לְבוּשׁוּ Is 63:1; Jb 41:5, לְבֻשׁוֹ 2 S 20:8 + 2 times; לְבוּשָׁהּ ψ 45:14 + 2 times; לְבוּשְׁכֶן 2 S 1:24; לְבוּשָׁם Je 10:9; pl. sf. לְבֻשֵׁיהֶם La 4:14;—garment, clothing, Gn 49:11 (poem in J; ‖ סוּתֹה), Jb 24:7 (‖ כְּסוּת), v 10; 30:18; 31:19; Pr 27:26; ψ 22:19; La 4:14; of women’s raiment 2 S 1:24 Pr 31:22, also fig. עֹז וְהָדָר לְבוּשָׁהּ v 25; specif. of princess ψ 45:14; of warrior’s tunic 2 S 20:8, cf. Is 63:1, 2 (י׳ as warrior); raiment for worshippers 2 K 10:22; for mourners, לְבוּשִׁי שָׂ֑ק ψ 35:13, cf. 69:12; בִּלְבוּשׁ שָׂק Est 4:2; of royal apparel ל׳ מַלְכוּת Est 6:8; 8:15, cf. (without מ׳) 6:9, 10, 11; scaly coat of crocod. פְּנֵיּ לְבוּשׁוֹ Jb 41:5; cover garment with violence Mal 2:16, fig. of putting away a wife, cf. RSK, 269 We; in other fig. uses:—as changed ψ 102:27 (sim. of heavens and earth), as covering 104:6 (sim. of deep upon earth); of cloud as garment of sea Jb 38:9, sim. of terrestrial objects in the light v 14.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from לבוש (lᵉbûwsh) (H3830) — clothing.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
לְבוּשׁ
- garment, covering. Ex. R. s. 1 לְבוּשׁוֹ מצרי his dress was Egyptian. Ukts. I, 2 הל׳ שלה the husk of the wheat grain; a. fr.—Pl. לְבוּשִׁים, לְבוּשִׁין. Snh. 90ᵇ צדיקים שנקברין בלְבוּשֵׁיהֶן the righteous who are buried in their garments, v. עָרוֹם; (Keth. 111ᵇ במלבושיהן). Meg. 16ᵇ חמשה לְבוּשֵׁי מלכות five official garments; Yalk. Esth. 1059 לבושים של מלכות; a. fr.—V. מַלְבּוּשׁ.
לְבוּשׁ ²
- 1. same. Targ. Esth. IV, 2. Targ. II Kings IV, 42 בלְבוּשֵׁיה (ed. Lag. בלבשיה); h. text בצקלנו); a. fr.—Keth. 63ᵃ שאילי מאני לבוש וכ׳ borrow dressy garments and cover thyself (to meet thy husband). Gen. R. s. 21 דלְבוּשֵׁיה מיניה וביה whose covering is a part of (inseparable from) its body. Taan. 21ᵇ, v. כּוֹסִילְתָּא. Sabb. 77ᵇ (playful etymology) לבושא לא בושה no shame. Nidd. 20ᵃ; a. fr.—Pl. לְבוּשִׁין, לְבוּשַׁיָא. Targ. Gen. III, 21. Targ. Esth. IV, 1; a. fr.—Tam. 32ᵃ לבישין דארגון purple garments; a. e.
- 2. circumvallation. Targ. Zech. XII, 6 ל׳ דנור (h. text כיור אש).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H3831 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וּ/לְבֻשֵׁי/ה֑וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Daniel 3:21 | 1 |
| לְבוּשֵׁ֣/הּ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 7:9 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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