What Is Hem in the Bible?
Object
The edge or border of a cloak, sometimes decorated.
Where it appears in the Bible
1 Samuel 24:5
What the Bible says
1 Samuel 24:5
And the servants of David said to him: Behold the day, of which the Lord said to thee: I will deliver thy enemy unto thee, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good in thy eyes. Then David arose, and secretly cut off the hem of Saul’s robe.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Dictionary.com, “hem”