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clothing

Meaning of “clothing”

Sense 1: Garments or covering for the body. Sense 2: Figuratively, that which covers or invests.

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KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
19 occurrences19 verses9 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Job 22:6

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Job 22:6
For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Job 22:6 · retained source text

For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

1611 marginal noteHeb. stripped the clothes of the naked.

Job 24:7
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 24:7 · retained source text

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they haue no couering in the cold.

Job 24:10
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 24:10 · retained source text

They cause him to go naked without clothing: and they take away the sheafe from the hungry,

Job 31:19
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 31:19 · retained source text

If I haue seene any perish for want of cloathing, or any poore without couering:

Psalms 35:13
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 35:13 · retained source text

But as for me, when they were sicke, my clothing was sack-cloth: I humbled my soule with fasting, and my prayer returned into mine owne bosome.

1611 marginal noteOr, afflicted.

Psalms 45:13
The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
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The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 45:13 · retained source text

The kings daughter is all glorious within; her clothing is of wrought gold.

Proverbs 27:26
The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.
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1611 witness · Proverbs 27:26 · retained source text

The lambes are for thy clothing, and the goates are the price of thy field.

Proverbs 31:22
She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Proverbs 31:22 · retained source text

She maketh herselfe couerings of tapestrie; her cloathing is silke and purple.

Proverbs 31:25
Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.
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The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Proverbs 31:25 · retained source text

Strength and honour are her cloathing; and she shall reioyce in time to come.

Isaiah 3:6
When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:
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The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 3:6 · retained source text

When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruine bee vnder thy hand:

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Covering with or putting on vestments of any kind; providing with garments; investing; covering. CLOTHING, noun 1. Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering. As for me--my clothing was sackcloth. Psalms 35:13. 2. The art or practice of making cloth. The king took measures to instruct the refugees from Flanders in the art of clothing

volume 1, leaf 411, column 1 (entry starts at OCR line 18)

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