Definition

a covering, i.e. clothing; also treachery or pillage

Etymology

from H898 (בָּגַד);

Where the KJV renders it

• apparel
• cloth(-es
• ing)
• garment
• lap
• rag
• raiment
• robe
• very (treacherously)
• vesture
• wardrobe

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.