kerchief Summary and Overview

mentioned only Ezek. 13:18, 21, as an article of apparel or ornament applied to the head of the idolatrous women of Israel. The precise meaning of the word is uncertain. It appears to have been a long loose shawl, such as Oriental women wrap themselves in (Ruth 3:15; Isa. 3:22). Some think that it was a long veil or head-dress, denoting by its form the position of those who wore it.

"Woe to the women that make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature (men of every age) to hunt souls" (to make them their prey) ; Ezekiel 13:18. Magic veils, put over the heads of those consulting them, to fit them for receiving a response, rapt in spiritual trance above the world.