Easton's Bible Dictionary Babylonish garment A robe of rich colours fabricated at Babylon, and hence of great value (Joshua 7:21). Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) of or pertaining to, or made in, Babylon or Babylonia. 2. (n.) Pertaining to the Babylon of Revelation xiv. 8. 3. (n.) Pertaining to Rome and papal power. 4. (n.) Confused; Babel-like. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia BABYLONISH GARMENT bab-i-lo'-nish gar'ment: In the King James Version, Joshua 7:21, for BABYLONISH MANTLE, which see. BABYLONISH MANTLE man'-tl (the King James Version Babylonish Garment): One of the articles taken by Achan from the spoil of Jericho (Joshua 7:21). In the Hebrew "a mantle of Shinar." Entirely gratuitous is the suggested correction of Shinar to se`ar, making "a hairy mantle." The Greek has psilen poikilen, which Josephus apparently understood to mean "a royal garment all woven out of gold" (Ant., V, i, 10). The Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) calls it a "scarlet pallium," and some of the rabbinical traditions make it a purple robe. Such classical writers as Pliny and Martial speak of the weaving of embroidered stuffs as a famous industry of Babylonia. Many tablets that have been deciphered indicate that the industry was indeed widely extended, that its costly products were of great variety and that some of them were exported to distant markets; in fine, that the account in Joshua is characterized by great verisimilitude. Willis J. Beecher

Multi-Version Concordance Babylonish (1 Occurrence) Joshua 7:21 When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it. (KJV ASV WBS)