Strong’s G2899 · Greek
κράσπεδον
kráspedon · kras'-ped-on
Origin of uncertain derivation;
Meaning a margin, i.e. (specially), a fringe or tassel
In the King James Version border, hem.
In 5 verses of the King James Version
- Matthew 9:20And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
- Matthew 14:36And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
- Matthew 23:5But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
- Mark 6:56And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.
- Luke 8:44Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.