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סְחָבָה

se.cha.vah

rag

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Strong’s H5499Noun, feminine2 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

clothes2

In the text

Jeremiah 38:11סְחָבוֹת
Then Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to the king’s palace, to a place below the storehouse. From there he took old rags and worn-out clothes and lowered them with ropes to Jeremiah in the cistern.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

סְחָבָה n.f. rag, clout;—only pl. Je 38:11, 12

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.