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Strong’s G4470 · Greek

ῥάκος

rhákos · hrak'-os

Origin from ῥήγνυμι (G4486);

Meaning a "rag," i.e. piece of cloth

In the King James Version cloth.

In 2 verses of the King James Version

  1. Matthew 9:16No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.
  2. Mark 2:21No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.

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.

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