Bracelets and Anklets
The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands,
and the tablets, and the earrings,...
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bras'-let ('ets`adhah, chach, tsamidh, pathil, sheroth):
Used to translate a number of Hebrew words, only one of
which means a band for the arm ('ets`adhah), as in 2 Sam
1:10, "the bracelet that was on his arm." In Ex 35:22, where
both men and women are said to have brought as offerings
among other "jewels of gold" "bracelets" (the Revised
Ve...
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an'-klet, an'-k'-l-chan: "Anklets" is rightly found in Isa
3:18 the Revised Version (British and American), and "ankle-
chains" in Nu 31:50 the Revised Version (British and
American). A cognate word of essentially the same meaning is
used in Isa 3:20, and is rendered by the King James Version
"ornaments of the legs." It was these "anklets"...
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This word does not occur in the Authorized Version; but
anklets are referred to in Isa 3:16,18,20 They were fastened
to the ankle band of each leg; were as common as bracelets and
armlets and made of much the same material. The pleasant
jingling and tinkling which they made as they knocked against
each other was no doubt one of the reasons why...
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Present of
Ge 24:22
-Worn by women
Ge 24:30; Isa 3:19
-By men
Ge 38:18,25
-Dedicated to the tabernacle
Ex 35:22; Nu 31:50
-Taken as spoils
Nu 31:50; 2Sa 1:10
-FIGURATIVE
Eze 16:11...
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[See ARMLET] Bracelets of fine twisted Venetian gold are still
common in Egypt.
In Ge 38:18,25 the word rendered "bracelet" means
probably a string by which a seal-ring was suspended. Men as
well as women wore bracelets, as we see from So 5:14 Layard
says of the Assyrian kings, "The arms were encircled by
armlets, and the wrists by bracelets....
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an ornament universal in the East, especially among women;
used by princes as one of the insignia of royalty, and by
distinguished persons in general. The word is not used in the
Authorized Version, as even in 2Sa 1:10 it is rendered by "the
bracelet on his arm."...
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(1.) Anklets (Num. 31:50; 2 Sam. 1:10), and with reference
to
men.
(2.) The rendering of a Hebrew word meaning
fasteners, found
in Gen. 24:22, 30, 47.
(3.) In Isa. 3:19, the rendering of a Hebrew word
meaning
chains, i.e., twisted or chain-like bracelets.
(4.) In Ex. 35:22 it designates properly a clasp for
fastening
the dress of females...
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(Isaiah 3:16; Isaiah 3:18; Isaiah 3:20.) Women wore ankle
rings on both feet, joined by short chains, which "tinkled" as
they walked, and which made them take gracefully short steps.
Livingstone describes an African chief's wife similarly
wearing "a profusion of iron rings with little pieces of sheet
iron attached to make a tinkling as she wal...
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Armlet which encircled the arm, as BRACELETS the wrist. (See
ARMLET.) In Genesis 38:18; Genesis 38:25, instead of
"bracelets" translate (pathiyb) "the ribband" or guard by
which Judah's signet was suspended to his neck. In Isaiah 3:19
wreathed chainwork bracelets are meant, as the root of sheerah
implies. Bracelets of fine twisted gold are sti...
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