Necklaces
nek'-las (rabhidh, "chain"): A neck-chain ornament, worn
either separately (Ezek 16:11), or with pendants (Isa 3:19),
such as crescents (Isa 3:18) or rings (Gen 38:25); sometimes
made of gold (Gen 41:42; Dan 5:29), or of strings of jewels
(Song 1:10). Even beasts of burden were sometimes so adorned
by royalty (Jdg 8:26). It was considered sugg...
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(A. V., tablets, R. V., armlet)
Ex 35:22; Nu 31:50...
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I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon
thy hands, and a chain on thy neck....
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The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,...
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Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence
covereth them [as] a garment...
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For they [shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head, and
chains about thy neck....
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Among the women there was more apt to be ornamentation than among the men. Peter and Paul condemned an elaborate braiding of women's hair (I Peter 3:3; 1 Timothy 2:9), and the use of ornaments may possibly have been involved in the custom. Earrings were at one time worn by the women of Jacob's family (Genesis 35:4). And the golden earrings of the I...
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