Clout
Holman Bible Dictionary [1]
Jeremiah 38:11-12
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [2]
CLOUT . Jeremiah 38:11-12 ‘old cast clouts.’ The word is still used in Scotland for cloths (as in ‘dish-clout’), but for clothes only contemptuously. Formerly there was no contempt in the word. Sir John Mandeville ( Travels , Macmillan’s ed. p. 75) says, ‘And in that well she washed often-time the clouts of her son Jesu Christ.’ The verb ‘to clout’ occurs in Joshua 9:5 , of shoes (Amer. RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘patched’).
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1):
(n.) A blow with the hand.
(2):
(n.) To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage; patch, or mend, with a clout.
(3):
(n.) To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
(4):
(n.) To give a blow to; to strike.
(5):
(n.) To quard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
(6):
(n.) To join or patch clumsily.
(7):
(n.) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
(8):
(n.) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
(9):
(n.) A swadding cloth.
(10):
(n.) A piece; a fragment.
(11):
(n.) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; - probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
klout הסּחבות ha ṣeḥābhōth Jeremiah 38:11Jeremiah 38:12 טלא ṭālā' Joshua 9:5 Cym clouted Comus clouted
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [5]
is given in Joshua 9:5 as the rendering of the Heb. verb טָלָא , (tala elsewhere rendered "spotted"), which properly means to patch, and denotes that the sandals of the Gibeonites were mended, as if old and worn by a long journey. The "cast clouts" (סְחָבָה, sechabah', literally a tearing in pieces) put under Jeremiah's arms to prevent the cords by which he was drawn out of the dungeon from cutting into the flesh (Jeremiah 38:11-12) were old torn clothes or rags.
