Topic
Napkin
4 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Luke 19:20Easton · ISBE
And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin:
- John 11:44Easton · ISBE
And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
- John 20:7Easton · ISBE
And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
- Acts 19:12Easton
So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 4 references
(Gr. soudarion, John 11:44; 20:7; Lat. sudarium, a “sweat-cloth”), a cloth for wiping the sweat from the face. But the word is used of a wrapper to fold money in (Luke 19:20), and as an article of dress, a “handkerchief” worn on the head (Acts 19:12).
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.