Bible dictionaries
Cloth
What Bible dictionaries say about “Cloth”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Cloth - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
CLOTH, n.
1. A manufacture or stuff of wool or hair, or of cotton, flax, hemp or other vegetable filaments, formed by weaving or intertexture of threads, and used for garments or other covering and for various other purposes; as woolen cloth, linen cloth, cotton cloth, hair cloth.
2. The covering of a table; usually called a tablecloth.
3. The canvas on which pictures are drawn.
4. A texture or covering put to a particular use; as a cloth of state.
5. Dress; raiment. [See Clothes.]
6. The covering of a bed.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Clothing - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
CLOTHING, ppr. Covering with or putting on vestments of any kind; providing with garments; investing; covering.
CLOTHING, n.
1. Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering.
As for me--my clothing was sackcloth. Psa 35.
2. The art or practice of making cloth.
The king took measures to instruct the refugees from Flanders in the art of clothing.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
kloth, kloth'-ing.
See DRESS.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915Smith’s Bible Dictionary
William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3
The article in Smith