Topic
Pendant
2 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Judges 8:26ISBE
And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels’ necks.
- Isaiah 3:19ISBE
The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 2 references
pen'-dant (from French from Latin pendeo, "to hang"): Not in the King James Version. Twice in the Revised Version (British and American).
(1) netiphoth (the King James Version "collars"), ornaments of the Midianites captured by Gideon (Jud 8:26).
(2) netiphoth (the King James Version "chains"), an article of feminine apparel (Isa 3:19). The reference seems to be (Cheyne, "Isaiah" Polychrome Bible (HDB, III, 739)) to ear-drops, pearl or gold ornaments resembling a drop of Water, fastened, probably, to the lobe of the ear.
Texts: 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.