* an image. Heb. teraphim.
Ge 31:19 *marg:
Jud 17:5 18:14,17 Ho 3:4
* a pillow.
Rather, "the net-work of goat's hair at its (the Teraphim's)
pillow;" for the {kevir,} (whence the Chaldee and Syriac
{kavreetho,} a honey-comb, from its net-like form), seems to
have been a kind of mosquito-net, which, says Dr. Shaw, is "a
close curtain of gauze, used all over the East, by people of
fashion, to keep out the flies." That they had such anciently
cannot be doubted. Thus when Judith had beheaded Holofernes
in his bed, (ch. 13:9, 15) "she pulled down the canopy (or the
mosquito net, [ ,] from [ ,] a gnat, or
mosquito, whence our word canopy) wherein he did lie in his
drunkenness, from the pillars."
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