Biblica Analytica
H0899B Hebrew

בֶּ֫גֶד

be.ged

garment

Lexicon Entry

Definition
garment
Transliteration
be.ged
Strong's Number
H0899B
Occurrences
215
Semantic Domain
Clothing & Textile

Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

What Original Readers Understood

Supported

# בֶּגֶד (begad): A Common Hebrew Term for Clothing The Hebrew word *begad* appears 215 times throughout the Bible and carries the straightforward meaning of "garment" or piece of clothing. Its frequency in biblical texts indicates that references to clothing were commonplace in Hebrew narrative and law, reflecting clothing's practical importance in daily life and religious practice. The high occurrence count suggests that *begad* was used across diverse contexts—likely including both ordinary circumstances where people wore clothes and special religious or ceremonial situations. The word's prevalence in the biblical corpus points to clothing as a significant element in Hebrew literature, whether for describing everyday activities, maintaining ritual purity requirements, or marking social status and identity. While the lexicon data provided gives only the basic definition without specifying particular contexts or usage patterns, the sheer number of occurrences (215) confirms that *begad* was fundamental vocabulary for biblical writers. This makes it a core term for understanding how ancient Hebrew texts portrayed material culture and the physical realities of life in biblical times.

Source data & methodology
Strong's
H0899B
Lemma
בֶּ֫גֶד
Transliteration
be.ged
Definition
garment
Occurrences
215
Model
claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
Prompt version
1

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Occurrences in Scripture

215 total occurrences across the text — showing 50

2 Chronicles 23:13

Then she looked, and, behold, the king stood by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpets by the king. All the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. The singers also played musical instruments, and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and said, “Treason! treason!”

2 Chronicles 34:19

When the king had heard the words of the law, he tore his clothes.

2 Chronicles 34:22

So Hilkiah, and they whom the king had commanded, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter), and they spoke to her to that effect.

2 Chronicles 34:27

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me, I also have heard you,” says Yahweh.

Ezra 9:3

When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled the hair out of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.

Ezra 9:5

At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;

Nehemiah 4:23

So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes. Everyone took his weapon to the water.

Esther 4:1

Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, and wailed loudly and bitterly.

Esther 4:4

Esther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn’t receive it.

Job 13:28

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Job 22:6

For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 37:17

You whose clothing is warm, when the earth is still by reason of the south wind?

Psalms 22:18

They divide my garments among them. They cast lots for my clothing.

Psalms 45:8

All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.

Psalms 102:26

They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.

Psalms 109:19

Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, for the belt that is always around him.

Proverbs 6:27

Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned?

Proverbs 20:16

Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.

Proverbs 25:20

As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, or vinegar on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

Proverbs 27:13

Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman!

Ecclesiastes 9:8

Let your garments be always white, and don’t let your head lack oil.

Isaiah 36:22

Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

Isaiah 37:1

When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.

Isaiah 50:9

Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.

Isaiah 51:6

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.

Isaiah 51:8

For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”

Isaiah 52:1

Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.

Isaiah 59:6

Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.

Isaiah 59:17

He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

Isaiah 61:10

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Isaiah 63:1

Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who is this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”

Isaiah 63:2

Why is your clothing red, and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat?

Isaiah 63:3

“I have trodden the wine press alone. Of the peoples, no one was with me. Yes, I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing.

Isaiah 64:6

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Jeremiah 36:24

The king and his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, and didn’t tear their garments.

Jeremiah 41:5

men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to Yahweh’s house.

Jeremiah 43:12

I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt. He will burn them, and carry them away captive. He will array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment; and he will go out from there in peace.

Jeremiah 52:33

and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life.

Ezekiel 16:16

You took some of your garments, and made for yourselves high places decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them. This shall not happen, neither shall it be.

Ezekiel 16:18

You took your embroidered garments, covered them, and set my oil and my incense before them.

Ezekiel 16:39

I will also give you into their hand, and they will throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places. They will strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful jewels. They will leave you naked and bare.

Ezekiel 18:7

and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

Ezekiel 18:16

hasn’t wronged any, hasn’t taken anything to pledge, hasn’t taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

Ezekiel 23:26

They will also strip you of your clothes, and take away your beautiful jewels.

Ezekiel 26:16

Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground, and will tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.

Ezekiel 27:20

“ ‘ “Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths for riding.

Ezekiel 42:14

When the priests enter in, then they shall not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but they shall lay their garments in which they minister there; for they are holy. Then they shall put on other garments, and shall approach that which is for the people.”

Ezekiel 42:14

When the priests enter in, then they shall not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but they shall lay their garments in which they minister there; for they are holy. Then they shall put on other garments, and shall approach that which is for the people.”

Ezekiel 44:17

“ ‘ “It will be that, when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments. No wool shall come on them while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.

Ezekiel 44:19

When they go out into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the holy rooms. They shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments.