Rag
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment.
(2): ( n.) A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture.
(3): ( v. t.) To dance to ragtime music, esp. in some manner considered indecorous.
(4): ( v. t.) To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
(5): ( n.) Hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress.
(6): ( n.) A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
(7): ( v. t.) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
(8): ( v. i.) To become tattered.
(9): ( n.) A ragged edge.
(10): ( v. t.) To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
(11): ( n.) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
(12): ( v. t.) To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [2]
Plural in Proverbs 23:21 , "Drowsiness will clothe a man with rags " (קרעים , ḳerā‛ı̄m "torn garment"; compare 1 Kings 11:30 ), and figuratively in Isaiah 64:6 the King James Version, "All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags ," in the sense of "tattered clothing" (בּגד , beghedh , the Revised Version (British and American) "garment"). In Jeremiah 38:11 , Jeremiah 38:12 the American Standard Revised Version translates סחבה , ṣeḥābhāh , as "rag" (the King James Version, the English Revised Version "old cast clout"), while the King James Version, the English Revised Version use "rotten rag " for מלח , melaḥ (the American Standard Revised Version "worn-out garment"). Both ṣeḥābhāh and melaḥ mean "worn out."
