A bisht (Arabic: بِشْت; plural: بِشُوت bishūt and بْشُوت bshūt), known in some Arabic spoken dialects as mishlaḥ (Arabic: مِشْلَح) or ʿabāʾ (Arabic: عَبَاء), is a traditional men’s cloak popular in the Arab world worn in general for thousands of years. According to ancient Christian and Hebrew paintings, it was worn in the days of Jesus, by the people of the Levant, especially the inhabitants of the Holy Land. The Biblical equivalent of the bisht cloak is the me'īl. The bisht is a flowing outer cloak worn over a thawb.