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Hair in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(1.) The Egyptians let the hair of their head and beard grow only when they were in mourning, shaving it off at other times. "So particular were they on this point that to have neglected it was a subject of reproach and ridicule; and whenever they intended to convey the idea of a man of low condition, or a slovenly person, the artists rep...

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Girdle in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Worn by men and women. The meezach was worn by men alone (Job 12:21, margin). The common girdle was of leather, as the Bedouins now wear a red leather girdle with a long crooked knife and a pistol stuck in. The finer girdle was of linen (Jeremiah 13:1), often embroidered with gold (Daniel 10:5; Revelation 1:13). Girded up, so as to confine the...

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Girdles Scripture - Job 12:18

He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle....

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Goads Scripture - Ecclesiastes 12:11

The words of the wise [are] as goads, and as nails fastened [by] the masters of assemblies, [which] are given from one shepherd....

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Goats in Smiths Bible Dictionary

There appear to be two or three varieties of the common goat, Hircus agagrus, at present bred in Israel and Syria, but whether they are identical with those which were reared by the ancient Hebrews it is not possible to say. The most marked varieties are the Syrian goat(Capra mammorica, Linn.) and the Angora goat (Capra angorensis, Linn.), wit...

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Goats Scripture - Genesis 30:32

I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and [of such] shall be my hire....

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Grain Scripture - Mark 4:31

[It is] like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:...

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Storehouses Scripture - 1 Chronicles 27:25

And over the king's treasures [was] Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the storehouses in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the castles, [was] Jehonathan the son of Uzziah:...

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Hair in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Shaved closely by men, worn long by women, in Egypt. The Hebrew wore long beards; the Egyptians only in mourning did so. At the same time the Hebrew kept the distinction of sexes by clipping the hair of men (though hardly so much as we do; Leviticus 10:6; Hebrew: "let not loose (the hair of) your heads," not "uncover," etc.), but not of women ...

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Fishermen Scripture - Luke 5:2

And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing [their] nets....

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