שַׂלְמָה
sal.mah (H8008)
garment
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# שַׂלְמָה (salmah): A Biblical Garment The Hebrew word *salmah* denotes a garment—a piece of clothing worn as part of ordinary dress in ancient Israel. With sixteen occurrences across the biblical text, the term appears with sufficient frequency to indicate it represented a recognizable and important element of daily wear, though the lexical data provided does not specify its exact construction, size, or particular function relative to other garments. The relatively modest definition—simply "garment"—suggests that *salmah* was a general category of clothing rather than a highly specialized or ceremonial item with a narrowly defined purpose. Its presence in the biblical record across multiple texts indicates that garment terminology was significant enough to warrant specific vocabulary, reflecting the practical importance of clothing in ancient Near Eastern society. Without additional contextual or etymological information from the provided data, the precise visual characteristics, typical materials, or social distinctions associated with wearing a *salmah* cannot be determined from the definition alone.
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For every matter of trespass, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which one says, ‘This is mine,’ the cause of both parties shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.
If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.
I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your sandals have not grown old on your feet.
and old and patched sandals on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their food supply was dry and moldy.
These wine skins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our sandals have become old because of the very long journey.”
and spoke to them, saying, “Return with much wealth to your tents, with very much livestock, with silver, with gold, with bronze, with iron, and with very much clothing. Divide the plunder of your enemies with your brothers.”
Year after year, every man brought his tribute, vessels of silver, vessels of gold, clothing, armor, spices, horses, and mules.
At that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the way. Now Ahijah had clad himself with a new garment; and the two of them were alone in the field.
Ahijah took the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces.
They each brought tribute, vessels of silver, vessels of gold, clothing, armor, spices, horses, and mules every year.
“Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn’t grow old, and their feet didn’t swell.
yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.
He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.
Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
But lately my people have risen up as an enemy. You strip the robe and clothing from those who pass by without a care, returning from battle.