לָבַשׁ lâbash — properly, wrap around, i.e. (by implication) to put on a garment or clothe (oneself, or another), literally or figuratively
Translated in the KJV as apparel, arm, array, clothe, come upon, put (on, upon), wear.
or לָבֵשׁ; a primitive root; properly, wrap around, i.e. (by implication) to put on a garment or clothe (oneself, or another), literally or figuratively.
lâbash in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 21Perfect (qatal) 11Participle (passive) 11Wayyiqtol 9Sequential perfect (weqatal) 8Imperative 7Infinitive construct 2Jussive 1Participle (active) 1Infinitive absolute 1
And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
And that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place.
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 12Sequential perfect (weqatal) 8Imperfect (yiqtol) 6Perfect (qatal) 3Participle (active) 1Infinitive construct 1Infinitive absolute 1
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:
And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
Pu'al
Participle (passive) 4
And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place in the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.
Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat either of them on his throne, clothed in their robes, and they sat in a void place at the entering in of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›