KJV dictionary & concordance
Pieces or patches of cloth; rags.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Jeremiah 38:11
Complete exact-word concordance
So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
So Ebed-melech tooke the men with him, and went into the house of the king vnder the treasurie, and tooke thence old cast cloutes, and old rotten ragges, and let them downe by cordes into the dungeon to Ieremiah.
And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said vnto Ieremiah, Put now these old cast cloutes and rotten ragges vnder thine arme-holes, vnder the cordes. And Ieremiah did so.
Source order
1 · Direct Scripture definition
Old cast clouts is twice coordinated with old rotten rags, directly supporting the rag or cloth-piece sense without making every rag a clout.
2 · KJV context and cross-references
Historical English dictionary sources
rags, pieces of cloth.
