Swaddling Clothes
swod'-'-l, swod'-ling-band (verb chathal, "enwrap,"
"swaddle" (Ezek 16:4), noun chathullah, "swaddling-band"
(Job 38:9); verb sparganoo, "to wrap in swaddling clothes"
(Lk 2:7,12), noun spargana (pl.), "swaddling clothes" (The
Wisdom of Solomon 7:4). the King James Version also has
"swaddle" (Lam 2:22) for Taphach, literally, "to extend."
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(Wrapping, bundling)
Of children
Job 38:9; La 2:22; Eze 16:4; Lu 2:7,12...
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And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in
swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was
no room for them in the inn....
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And this [shall be] a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe
wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger....
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CARE OF INFANT CHILD
For years the Orientals of Bible lands have cared for an infant child much as it was done when JESUS was born. Instead of allowing the young baby the free use of its limbs, it is bound hand and foot by swaddling bands, and thus made into a helpless bundle like a mummy. At birth the child is washed and rubbed with salt, and the...
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