בֶּ֫גֶד
garment
‘garment’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
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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).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H899 appears in the Book of Leviticus — 45 distinct verses. 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.
Leviticus
- Leviticus 6:11 בְּגָדָ֔י/ו בְּגָדִ֣ים n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c mp He shall take off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.
- Leviticus 6:27 הַ/בֶּ֔גֶד ptcl def.art + n c ms Whatever shall touch its flesh shall be holy. When there is any of its blood sprinkled on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a holy place.
- Leviticus 8:2 הַ/בְּגָדִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp "Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread;
- Leviticus 8:30 בְּגָדָ֔י/ו בִּגְדֵ֥י בְּגָדָ֔י/ו בִּגְדֵ֥י n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c mp cs n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c mp cs Moses took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons' garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.
- Leviticus 10:6 וּ/בִגְדֵי/כֶ֤ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, "Don't let the hair of your heads go loose, neither tear your clothes; that you don't die, and that he not be angry with all the congregation: but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.
- Leviticus 11:25 בְּגָדָ֖י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 11:28 בְּגָדָ֖י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.
- Leviticus 11:32 בֶ֤גֶד n c ms On whatever any of them falls when they are dead, it shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; then it will be clean.
- Leviticus 11:40 בְּגָדָ֖י/ו בְּגָדָ֖י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 13:6 בְּגָדָ֖י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day; and, behold, if the plague has faded, and the plague hasn't spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
- Leviticus 13:34 בְּגָדָ֖י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms On the seventh day, the priest shall examine the itch; and, behold, if the itch hasn't spread in the skin, and its appearance isn't deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
- Leviticus 13:45 בְּגָדָ֞י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms "The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, 'Unclean! Unclean!'
- Leviticus 13:47 וְ/הַ/בֶּ֕גֶד בְּ/בֶ֣גֶד בְּ/בֶ֥גֶד conj + ptcl def.art + n c ms prep + n c ms cs prep + n c ms cs "The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen garment;
- Leviticus 13:49 בַּ/בֶּגֶד֩ prep det + n c ms if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of skin; it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be shown to the priest.
- Leviticus 13:51 בַּ֠/בֶּגֶד prep det + n c ms He shall examine the plague on the seventh day. If the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a destructive mildew. It is unclean.
- Leviticus 13:52 הַ/בֶּ֜גֶד ptcl def.art + n c ms He shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of skin, in which the plague is: for it is a destructive mildew. It shall be burned in the fire.
- Leviticus 13:53 בַּ/בֶּ֕גֶד prep det + n c ms "If the priest examines it, and, behold, the plague hasn't spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin;
- Leviticus 13:56 הַ/בֶּ֨גֶד֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms If the priest looks, and, behold, the plague has faded after it is washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:
- Leviticus 13:57 בַּ֠/בֶּגֶד prep det + n c ms and if it appears again in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn with fire that in which the plague is.
- Leviticus 13:58 וְ/הַ/בֶּ֡גֶד conj + ptcl def.art + n c ms The garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, which you shall wash, if the plague has departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and it will be clean."
- Leviticus 13:59 בֶּ֥גֶד n c ms cs This is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
- Leviticus 14:8 בְּגָדָ֜י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms "He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.
- Leviticus 14:9 בְּגָדָ֗י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water, then he shall be clean.
- Leviticus 14:47 בְּגָדָ֑י/ו בְּגָדָֽי/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms He who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes; and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
- Leviticus 14:55 הַ/בֶּ֖גֶד ptcl def.art + n c ms and for the destructive mildew of a garment, and for a house,
- Leviticus 15:5 בְּגָדָ֛י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 15:6 בְּגָדָ֛י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms He who sits on anything whereon the man who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 15:7 בְּגָדָ֛י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms "'He who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 15:8 בְּגָדָ֛י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms "'If he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 15:10 בְּגָדָ֛י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. He who carries those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 15:11 בְּגָדָ֛י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms "'Whoever he who has the discharge touches, without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 15:13 בְּגָדָ֑י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms "'When he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.
- Leviticus 15:17 בֶּ֣גֶד n c ms Every garment, and every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 15:21 בְּגָדָ֛י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 15:22 בְּגָדָ֛י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 15:27 בְּגָדָ֛י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 16:4 בִּגְדֵי n c mp cs He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches on his body, and shall put on the linen sash, and he shall be dressed with the linen turban. They are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water, and put them on.
- Leviticus 16:23 בִּגְדֵ֣י n c mp cs "Aaron shall come into the Tent of Meeting, and shall take off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and shall leave them there.
- Leviticus 16:24 בְּגָדָ֑י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Then he shall bathe himself in water in a holy place, and put on his garments, and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people.
- Leviticus 16:26 בְּגָדָ֔י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms "He who lets the goat go for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
- Leviticus 16:28 בְּגָדָ֔י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms He who burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
- Leviticus 16:32 בִּגְדֵ֥י בִּגְדֵ֥י n c mp cs n c mp cs The priest, who is anointed and who is consecrated to be priest in his father's place, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments.
- Leviticus 17:15 בְּגָדָ֜י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms "'Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean.
- Leviticus 19:19 וּ/בֶ֤גֶד conj + n c ms cs "'You shall keep my statutes. "'You shall not crossbreed different kinds of animals. "'you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; "'neither shall there come upon on you a garment made of two kinds of material.
- Leviticus 21:10 הַ/בְּגָדִ֑ים וּ/בְגָדָ֖י/ו ptcl def.art + n c mp conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms "'He who is the high priest among his brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose, nor tear his clothes;
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.
At its core, בגד (beged) means “garment.” It first appears in Genesis 24:53. It turns up in 190 verses across 25 books, a common footprint. Not a single-sense word: explore its full sense range. It clusters with בגד, בגדות and בגוד under a shared root. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H899 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 →
- 190
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 190 distinct verses.
- 25 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 25 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #217
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 217 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 190 occurrences in the concordance →
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 190 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 91 verses · 48%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 76 verses · 40%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 23 verses · 12%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Clothes 65×, Garments 65×, Garment 30×
- American Standard Version†: Garments 56×, Clothes 55×, Garment 27×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Clothes 73×, Garments 58×, Clothing 16×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Clothes 86×, Garments 30×, Clothing 21×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H899 across 217† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 22 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H899 across 218† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 36 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H899 across 213† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 15 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H899 across 223† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
בגד I [m.] treachery, Is 24
בגד II (except Lv 6
- 1. garment, clothing, raiment, robe of any kind, from the filthy clothing of the leper to the holy robes of the high priest, the simplest covering of the poor as well as the costly raiment of the rich and noble, used throughout Heb. Lit.: Gn 24:53 (J), 28:20 (E; 14 times JE), Ex 28:2 + (P 90 times), Dt 24:17 Ju 8:26 + 4 times 1 S 19:13 + 10 times, 1 K 1:1 + 23 times, 2 Ch 18:9 + (Chr 9 times), Est 4:1, 4; Jb 13:28; 22:6; 37:17 ψ 22:19; 45:9; 102:27; 109:19; Pr 6:27; 20:16; 25:20; 27:13 Ec 9:8 Is 2; 24:16; 36:22; 37:1; Is 3; 50:9 + 10 times, Je 12:1 + 3 times, Ez 16:16 + 13 times, Jo 2:13; Am 2:8; Hg 2:12; Zc 3:3, 4, 5; 14:14; מְלֹא בִגְדוֹ his lap-ful 2 K 4:39. e.g. Genesis 24:53
- 2. covering, wrapping, of furniture of tabernacle Nu 4:6–13 (6 times); coverlet of a bed 1 S 19:13. e.g. Numbers 4:6
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. n.[m.] treachery, Is 24:16; Je 12:1.
II. n.m. (except Lv 6:20 עָלֶיהָ, but Sam. עליו, Ez 42:14; Pr 6:27, cf. Köi, 482) garment, covering—Gn 28:2 + 36 times; sf. בִּגְדוֹ Ez 9:3 + (14 times without dag. lene GesLbg 94); pl. בְּגָדִים Lv 6:4 + 32 times; cstr. בִּגְדֵי Gn 27:15 + 39 times; sf. בְּגָדֶיךָ 1 K 22:20 + 81 times בִּגְדֹתֶיךָ ψ 45:9;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from בגד (bâgad) (H898) — to betray.
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.
בָּגַד
- v. infra) to act violently, to rebel, be faithless. Snh. 37ᵃ (allud. to Gen. XXVII, 27) א"ת בְּגָדָיו אלא בּוֹגְדָיו do not read b’gadav (his garments), but bog’dav (his faithless ones). Y. Peah I, 16ᵇ top; Num. R. s. 10, beg.; Cant. R. to V, 16, v. בְּגִידָה.—Mekh. Mishp., N’zikin 3 מאחר שב׳ בה וכ׳ (b’bigdo bah, Ex. XXI, 8) since he &c., treated her contemptuously (opp. to the interpretation of בגדו as his garment, שפירש בגדו עליה he spread his bed-cloth over her). [From Targ. renderings as well as from Agadic interpretations it appears that the primitive meaning of בגד (√בג) is, to tear; also to despise, corresp. to the meanings of √בז; v. Targ. Job VI, 5; Is. XXXIII, 1; Prov. XXI, 18; Snh. 94ᵃ, cit. s. v. בזוזא; Esth. R. to I, 10, cit. s. v. בּוּז; Mekh. l. c.; cmp. also K’thib בג for K’ri בַּז Ezek. XXV, 7.—בֶּגֶד seems to be a piece, web, corresp. in meaning and use to φᾶρος.] e.g. Genesis 27:27
בֶּגֶד
- preced.) web, garment. Men. 40ᵇ היא של ב׳ וכ׳ if (the garment) itself is a web, but its borders are of leather. Ib. the principal element ב׳ בעינן must be a web (in order to require Tsitsith). Mekh. Mishp., N’zikin 3, v. preced. Sabb. 26ᵇ; a. fr.—Pl. בְּגָדִים, constr. בִּגְדֵי. Gen. R. s. 20 ב׳ א"הר Adam’s garments, v. אוֹר II, 3. Yoma 60ᵇ ב׳ לבן the Highpriest’s white garments (for the Day of Atone, Lev. XVI, 4), contrad. to ב׳ זהב gold-embroidered &c. Ib. 68ᵇ; a. fr. e.g. Leviticus 16:4
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 115 distinct written forms H899 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.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 55 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H899, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 184 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 190 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 24:53
- Exodus 28:2
- Leviticus 6:11
- Numbers 4:6
- Deuteronomy 24:17
- Judges 8:26
- 1 Samuel 19:13
- 2 Samuel 1:2
- 1 Kings 1:1
- 2 Kings 2:12
- 2 Chronicles 18:9
- Ezra 9:3
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
