The word in Scripture

Garment in the Bible

The word garment appears 86 times in the King James Version of the Bible. A garment clothes and represents one's standing. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What garment means in the Bible

A garment clothes and represents one's standing.

Where the word garment appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word garment appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out.”Genesis 39:18

“Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:”Psalms 104:2

“Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.”Psalms 109:19

“Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.”Proverbs 20:16

“And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:”Matthew 9:20

“And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.”Matthew 14:36

“Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.”Luke 8:44

“They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;”Hebrews 1:11