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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Raiment (Clothing)
• Clothing
Thompson Chain Reference
• Rending of Clothes
• Grave-Clothes
• Clothing
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Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Garments; Clothing: & Skins
• Clothing
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Linen Cloth
• Fair Linen Cloth, Fair White Linen Cloth
American Tract Society
• Clothes
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Swaddling Clothes
• Cloth, Clothing
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Clothes, Clothing
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Undressed Cloth
• Swaddling Clothes
• Grave-Clothes
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King James Dictionary
• Clothing
• Clothes
• Clothed
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Clothing
• Cloth
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Religious, Clothing of
• Lap Cloth
• Gold, Cloth of
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People's Bible Dictionary
• Clothes
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Clothing
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Swaddling Clothes
• Linen, Linen Cloth, Fine Linen
• Grave-Clothes
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• Clothe
Wilson's Bible Types
• Clothe
• Cloth
Webster Dictionary
• Top-Cloth
• Thibet Cloth
• Pi?a Cloth
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Bunting (Cloth)
• Cheese Cloth
• Cloth
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Cloth; Clothing
• Clothed, Upon
• Clothes, Rending of
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Altar-Cloth
• Ampulling Cloth
• Bearing-Cloth
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Clothes
• Field of the Cloth of Gold
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Altar Cloths
Lexicons
• ܐܽܘܪܩܰܥܬ݂ܳܐ
• ܠܒ݂ܽܘܫܳܐ
• ܠܳܒ݂ܶܫ
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Berry's NT Synonyms
• Clothing
• ἀμφιέζω , ἀμφιέννυμι
• γυμνητεύω , γυμνιτεύω
• γυμνός
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• בֶּגֶד , בֶּגֶד
• גְּלוֹם
• דָּוֶה
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CLOTHE, pret. and pp. clothed, or clad. See Cloth.

1. To put on garments to invest the body with raiment to cover with dress, for concealing nakedness and defending the body from cold or injuries.

The Lord God made coats of skin and clothed them. Genesis 3 .

2. To cover with something ornamental.

Embroidered purple clothes the golden beds.

But clothe, without the aid of other words, seldom signifies to adorn. In this example from Pope, it signifies merely to cover.

3. To furnish with raiment to provide with clothes as, a master is to feed and clothe his apprentice.d

4. To put on to invest to cover, as with a garment as, to clothe thoughts with words.

I will clothe her priests with salvation. Psalms 132 .

Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Proverbs 23 .

Let them be clothed with shame. Psalms 35 .

5. To invest to surround to encompass.

The Lord is clothed with majesty. Psalms 93 .

Thou art clothed with honor and majesty. Psalms 104 .

6. To invest to give to by commission as, to clothe with power or authority.

7. To cover or spread over as, the earth is clothed with verdure.

CLOTHE, To wear clothes.

Care no more to clothe and eat.