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Lexicon :: Strong's H3847 - lāḇaš

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לָבַשׁ
Transliteration
lāḇaš
Pronunciation
law-bash'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1075

Strong’s Definitions

לָבַשׁ lâbash, law-bash'; or לָבֵשׁ lâbêsh; a primitive root; properly, wrap around, i.e. (by implication) to put on a garment or clothe (oneself, or another), literally or figuratively:—(in) apparel, arm, array (self), clothe (self), come upon, put (on, upon), wear.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 112x

The KJV translates Strong's H3847 in the following manner: clothe (51x), put on (22x), put (18x), array (6x), wear (4x), armed (3x), came (3x), apparel (1x), apparelled (1x), clothed them (1x), came upon (1x), variant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 112x
The KJV translates Strong's H3847 in the following manner: clothe (51x), put on (22x), put (18x), array (6x), wear (4x), armed (3x), came (3x), apparel (1x), apparelled (1x), clothed them (1x), came upon (1x), variant (1x).
  1. to dress, wear, clothe, put on clothing, be clothed

    1. (Qal)

      1. to put on clothes, be clothed, wear

      2. to put on, be clothed with (fig.)

    2. (Pual) to be fully clothed

    3. (Hiphil) to clothe, array with, dress

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
לָבַשׁ lâbash, law-bash'; or לָבֵשׁ lâbêsh; a primitive root; properly, wrap around, i.e. (by implication) to put on a garment or clothe (oneself, or another), literally or figuratively:—(in) apparel, arm, array (self), clothe (self), come upon, put (on, upon), wear.
STRONGS H3847: Abbreviations
לָבֵשׁ לָבַשׁ verb put on (a garment), wear, clothe, be clothed (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic לָבֵישׁ, bdb052712 Assyrian labâšu; Arabic bdb052713; Ethiopic bdb052714); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singularלָבֵשׁ Psalm 93:1 (twice in verse), לָבַשׁ Job 7:5 + 2 times, וְלָבַשׁ (consecutive) Leviticus 6:3 + 3 times; suffix וּלְבָשֵׁם (consecutive) Leviticus 16:4; 3rd person feminine singular לָֽבְשָׁה Judges 6:34 + 2 times, etc. (Ezekiel 42:14 read probablyוְלָֽבְשׁוּ Qr, for ילבשׁו Kt, but clause perhaps interpolated, see Co); Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִלְבַּשׁ Deuteronomy 22:5 +; suffix וַיִּלְבָּשֵׁנִי Job 29:14 יִלְבָּשָׁם Exodus 29:30; 1st person singular suffix אֶלְבָּשֶׁ֑נָּה Songs 5:3; 3rd person feminine pluralתִּלְבַּשְׁןָ 2 Samuel 13:18, etc.; Imperative masculine singularלְבַשׁ 1 Kings 22:30, etc.;Infinitive absolute לָבוֺשׁ Haggai 1:6; construct לִלְבּשׁ Genesis 28:20; Leviticus 21:10; Participle active plural הַלֹּבְשִׁים Zephaniah 1:8; passive absolute לָבוּשׁ 1 Samuel 17:5; Daniel 10:5; לָבֻשׁ Ezekiel 9:2 + 3 times; construct לְבוּשׁ Daniel 12:6, 7, לְבֻשׁ Ezekiel 9:11 + 3 times; plural construct לְבֻשֵׁי Ezekiel 23:6 + 2 times; —
1. a. literally put on (one's own) garment (accusative) Genesis 38:19; 1 Samuel 28:8; 2 Samuel 14:2; 1 Kings 22:30 2 Chronicles 18:29; Exodus 29:30; Leviticus 6:3; Leviticus 6:4; Leviticus 16:4 (twice in verse); Leviticus 16:23, 24, 32; Leviticus 21:10; Deuteronomy 22:5; Ezekiel 44:17, 19, and so Ezekiel 42:14 Qr (see above), Jonah 3:5; Songs 5:3; Esther 4:1; Esther 5:1; with accusative garment + עַלבְּֿשָׂרוֺ Leviticus 16:3; of putting on armour Jeremiah 46:4; = wear (more or less habitually), with accusative of garment, Isaiah 4:1; Deuteronomy 22:11; Zephaniah 1:8; Zechariah 13:4; of Jerusalem under figure of woman Jeremiah 4:30, of rulers under figure of shepherds Ezekiel 34:3, compare כֵּן תִּלְבַּשְׁןָ 2 Samuel 13:18 (no accusative)
b. very often figurative, put on, be clothed with, with accusative of garment; — לָבַשׁ בְּשָׂרִי רִמָּה Job 7:5 my flesh is clothed (i.e. covered) with worms; of Jerusalem, be clothed with inhabitants Isaiah 49:18; of pasture, with flocks Psalm 65:14; more often the garment is some abstract quality, e.g. righteousness, majesty, beauty, strength, etc.; — וַיִּלְבַּשׁ צְדָקָה כַּשִּׁרְיָן Isaiah 59:17 he (י׳) hath put on righteousness as a breastplate, compare Isaiah 59:17 (vengeance), Psalm 93:1 (majesty), Psalm 93:1 (strength), Psalm 104:1 (honour and majesty), Isaiah 51:9 (strength); also Job 40:10; said of men, 2 Chronicles 6:41 (salvation), Psalm 132:9 (righteousness), Job 29:14 (id.); of Zion Isaiah 52:1 (twice in verse); also in bad sense, clothed with terror, trembling, shame, etc., Ezekiel 7:27; Ezekiel 26:16; Job 8:22; Psalm 35:26; Psalm 109:29, compare Psalm 35:18 (cursing).
c. literally put on, object omitted, נָתַןבֶּ֗֗֗גֶד לִלְבּשׁ Genesis 28:20; Job 27:17; Infinitive absolute לָבוֺשׁ Haggai 1:6 (there is) a clothing, but he has nothing for warmth.
d. once with בְּ, בּוֹ לָבַשׁ אֲשֶׁר ֗֗֗ לְבוּשׁ Esther 6:8.
e. Passive participle, clothed with, chiefly Ezek.; — with accusative of garment, Ezekiel 9:2, 3; Zechariah 3:3; Proverbs 31:21; Daniel 10:5; of wearing armour 1 Samuel 17:5; construct before garment, לְבֻשׁ הַבַּדִּים Ezekiel 9:11; Ezekiel 10:2, 6, 7, compare Ezekiel 23:6, 12; Ezekiel 38:4; Daniel 12:6, 7.
f. figurative: — לָֽבְשָׁה אֶתגִּֿדְע֑וֺן וְרוּחַ י׳ Judges 6:34 and the spirit of י׳ clothed itself with Gideon, i.e. (GFM) took possession of him (compare bdb052801 possessed); so 1 Chronicles 12:18; 2 Chronicles 24:20; צֶדֶק לָבַשְׁתִּי וַיִּלְבָּשֵׁנִי Job 29:14 and it clothed itself in me, as it were, became incarnate in me.
Pu. only Participle plural מְלֻבָּשִׁים arrayed, with accusative of garment 1 Kings 22:10 2 Chronicles 18:9; 5:12; absolute in full apparel Ezra 3:10.
Hiph. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular suffix הִלְבִּישַׁנִי Isaiah 61:10; 3rd person feminine singular הִלְבִּישָׁה Genesis 27:16; 2nd person masculine singular וְהִלְבַּשְׁתָּ֫ Exodus 28:41 + 3 times; suffix וְהִלְבַּשְׁתָּם (consecutive) Exodus 29:8; Numbers 20:26; 1st person singular suffix וְהִלְבַּשְׁתִּיו Isaiah 22:21; 3rd person plural הִלְבִּישׁוּ 2 Chronicles 28:15, וְהִלְבִּשׁוּ (consecutive) Esther 6:9; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular וַיַּלְבֵּשׁ Genesis 41:42 + 5 times; suffix וַיַּלְבִּשֵׁם Genesis 3:21; Leviticus 8:13; 3rd person feminine singular תַּלְבִּישׁ Proverbs 23:21, etc.; Infinitive absolute הַלְבֵּשׁ Zechariah 3:4; construct הַלְבִּישׁ Esther 4:4; Participle suffix הַמַּלְֽֽֽבִּשְׁכֶם 1 Samuel 1:24; — clothe, array with.
1. usually with 2 accusative,
a. literal וַיּלְבֵּשׁ אֹתוֺ בִּגְדֵישֵֿׁשׁ Genesis 41:42; 2 Samuel 1:24; Isaiah 22:21; Exodus 28:41; Exodus 29:5, 8; Exodus 40:13, 14; Leviticus 8:7, 13; Numbers 20:26, 28; Zechariah 3:4, 5; of clothing Jerusalem under figure of infant Ezekiel 16:10; of putting armour on some one 1 Samuel 17:38 (twice in verse).
b. figurative, Job 10:11 thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh; compare Job 39:19 (quivering of horse's neck); Isaiah 50:3; Isaiah 61:10; Psalm 132:16; Psalm 132:18.
2. with accusative garment only, Genesis 27:16 (+ עַליָֿדָיו); figurative, Proverbs 23:21.
3. with accusative of person only, Genesis 3:21; Genesis 27:15; 2 Chronicles 28:15 (twice in verse); Esther 4:4; Esther 6:9, 11.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H3848.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

3:21; 3:21; 27:15; 27:16; 27:16; 28:20; 28:20; 38:19; 41:42; 41:42

Exodus

28:41; 28:41; 29:5; 29:8; 29:8; 29:30; 29:30; 40:13; 40:14

Leviticus

6:3; 6:3; 6:4; 8:7; 8:13; 8:13; 16:3; 16:4; 16:4; 16:23; 16:24; 16:32; 21:10; 21:10

Numbers

20:26; 20:26; 20:28

Deuteronomy

22:5; 22:5; 22:11

Judges

6:34; 6:34

1 Samuel

1:24; 17:5; 17:5; 17:38; 28:8

2 Samuel

1:24; 13:18; 13:18; 14:2

1 Kings

22:10; 22:30; 22:30

1 Chronicles

12:18

2 Chronicles

5:12; 6:41; 18:9; 18:29; 24:20; 28:15; 28:15

Ezra

3:10

Esther

4:1; 4:4; 4:4; 5:1; 6:8; 6:9; 6:9; 6:11

Job

7:5; 7:5; 8:22; 10:11; 27:17; 29:14; 29:14; 29:14; 39:19; 40:10

Psalms

35:18; 35:26; 93:1; 93:1; 93:1; 104:1; 109:29; 132:9; 132:16; 132:18

Proverbs

23:21; 23:21; 31:21

Song of Songs

5:3; 5:3

Isaiah

4:1; 22:21; 22:21; 49:18; 50:3; 51:9; 52:1; 59:17; 59:17; 61:10; 61:10

Jeremiah

4:30; 46:4

Ezekiel

7:27; 9:2; 9:2; 9:3; 9:11; 9:11; 10:2; 10:6; 10:7; 16:10; 23:6; 23:6; 23:12; 26:16; 34:3; 38:4; 42:14; 42:14; 44:17; 44:19

Daniel

10:5; 10:5; 12:6; 12:6; 12:7; 12:7

Jonah

3:5

Zephaniah

1:8; 1:8

Haggai

1:6; 1:6

Zechariah

3:3; 3:4; 3:4; 3:5; 13:4

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3847 matches the Hebrew לָבַשׁ (lāḇaš),
which occurs 111 times in 102 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 3 (Job 10:11–Zec 3:4)

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:11 - Thou hast clothed H3847 me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:17 - He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, H3847 and the innocent shall divide the silver.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:14 - I put H3847 on righteousness, and it clothed H3847 me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:19 - Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed H3847 his neck with thunder?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:10 - Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array H3847 thyself with glory and beauty.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:26 - Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed H3847 with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:13 - The pastures are clothed H3847 with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 93:1 - The LORD reigneth, he is clothed H3847 with majesty; the LORD is clothed H3847 with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:1 - Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed H3847 with honour and majesty.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:18 - As he clothed H3847 himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:29 - Let mine adversaries be clothed H3847 with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:9 - Let thy priests be clothed H3847 with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:16 - I will also clothe H3847 her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:18 - His enemies will I clothe H3847 with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:21 - For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe H3847 a man with rags.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:21 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed H3847 with scarlet.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:3 - I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? H3847 I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:1 - And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear H3847 our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:21 - And I will clothe H3847 him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:18 - Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe H3847 thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:3 - I clothe H3847 the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:9 - Awake, awake, put on H3847 strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:1 - Awake, awake; put on H3847 thy strength, O Zion; put on H3847 thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:17 - For he put on H3847 righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on H3847 the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:10 - I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed H3847 me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:30 - And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest H3847 thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:4 - Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on H3847 the brigandines.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:27 - The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed H3847 with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:2 - And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed H3847 with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:3 - And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed H3847 with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:2 - And he spake unto the man clothed H3847 with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:6 - And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed H3847 with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:7 - And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed H3847 with linen: who took it, and went out.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:10 - I clothed H3847 thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:6 - Which were clothed H3847 with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:12 - She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed H3847 most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:16 - Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe H3847 themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:3 - Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe H3847 you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:4 - And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed H3847 with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:14 - When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put H3847 H3847 on other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:17 - And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed H3847 with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:19 - And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put H3847 on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:5 - Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed H3847 in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz:
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:6 - And one said to the man clothed H3847 in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:7 - And I heard the man clothed H3847 in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:5 - So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put H3847 on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:8 - And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD'S sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed H3847 with strange apparel.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:6 - Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe H3847 you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:3 - Now Joshua was clothed H3847 with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:4 - And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe H3847 thee with change of raiment.

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