Topic
Hood
4 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Isaiah 3:23Easton · ISBE · Nave General scriptures concerning
The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
- Zechariah 3:5Easton · ISBE
And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by.
- Job 29:14Easton
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
- Isaiah 62:3Easton
Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 4 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 2 references
hood (zeniphoth): The ladies' "hoods" of Isa 3:23 the King James Version appear as "turbans" the Revised Version (British and American); and "mitre" of Zec 3:5 is "turban, or diadem" the English Revised Version, margin. The word is from the verb zanaph, "to wrap round." It connotes a head-covering, not a permanent article of dress.
See DRESS, sec. 5; HAT.
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.