Bible Encyclopedias
Clout

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

klout : As substantive (הסּחבות , ha -ṣeḥābhōth ) a patch or piece of cloth, leather, or the like, a rag, a shred, or fragment. Old "cast clouts and old rotten rags" (Jeremiah 38:11 , Jeremiah 38:12 the King James Version). As verb ( טלא , ṭālā' ) "to bandage," "patch," or mend with a clout. "Old shoes and clouted (the American Standard Revised Version "patched") upon their feet" (Joshua 9:5; compare Shakespeare, Cym ., IV, 2: "I thought he slept, And put my clouted brogues from off my feet"; Milton, Comus : "And the dull swain treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.»