This verb means to sew something onto something else—to attach or stitch a piece of fabric onto a garment. Jesus uses it in Mark 2:21 in his parable about not sewing a piece of unshrunk cloth onto an old garment, illustrating the incompatibility of old and new covenant forms. The image is practical and domestic: everyone in the ancient world understood that new cloth would shrink and tear away from old fabric. The multilingual glosses (Spanish cose, French coudre, German aufnähen) all capture the basic sewing action, with German specifically preserving the 'sew-on' sense.