8071 - simlah

Strong's Concordance

Original word: שִׂמְלָה
Transliteration: simlah
Definition (short): clothes
Definition (full): a dress, a mantle

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from an unused word
Definition: a wrapper, mantle
NASB Translation: cloak (4), cloth (1), clothes (9), clothing (5), garment (5), garments (5).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Perhaps by permutation for the feminine of cemel (through the idea of a cover assuming the shape of the object beneath); a dress, especially a mantle -- apparel, cloth(-es, -ing), garment, raiment. Compare salmah.

see HEBREW cemel

see HEBREW salmah

KJV: And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
NASB: But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father's nakedness.
KJV: Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
NASB: So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods which are among you, and purify yourselves and change your garments;
KJV: And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
NASB: So Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
KJV: Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
NASB: Then Pharaoh sent and called for Joseph, and they hurriedly brought him out of the dungeon; and when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came to Pharaoh.
KJV: Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.
NASB: Then they tore their clothes, and when each man loaded his donkey, they returned to the city.