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Isaiah 3:19

The ear-rings, and the chains, and the delicate clothing,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bracelet;   Chains;   Dress;   Jewels;   Muffler;   Pride;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Dress;   Women;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Woman;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Bracelet;   Garments;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Dress;   Ornaments;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Beauty;   Magic;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Infinity;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bracelet;   Collar;   Mufflers;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Armlet;   Bracelet;   Chain;   Earrings;   Veil;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bracelet;   Jewels, Jewelry;   Muffler;   Turban;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Isaiah, Book of;   Mufflers;   Ornaments;   Trade and Commerce;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Peter Epistles of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Collar;   Mufflers;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ornaments, Personal,;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Amulet;   Bracelet;   Jehoiada;   Muffler;   Necklace;   Ornament;   Pendant;   Shoe;   Trade;   Woman;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bible Canon;   Bracelets;   Chains;   Collar;   Commerce;   Costume;   Ornament;   Pearl;   Phylacteries;   Shirah, Pereḳ (Pirḳe);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
pendants, bracelets, veils,
Hebrew Names Version
the earrings, the bracelets, the veils,
King James Version
The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
English Standard Version
the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarves;
New American Standard Bible
dangling earrings, bracelets, veils,
New Century Version
their earrings, bracelets, and veils,
Amplified Bible
dangling earrings, bracelets, and the hanging veils and scarves,
World English Bible
the earrings, the bracelets, the veils,
Geneva Bible (1587)
The sweete balles, and the brasselets, and the bonnets,
Legacy Standard Bible
dangling earrings, bracelets, veils,
Berean Standard Bible
their pendants, bracelets, and veils,
Complete Jewish Bible
their pendants, bracelets and veils;
Darby Translation
the pearl-drops, and the bracelets, and the veils,
Easy-to-Read Version
the earrings, bracelets, and veils,
George Lamsa Translation
And their adornments and their necklaces and the braids of their hair and their chains and their bonnets and their veils,
Good News Translation
and on their wrists. He will take away their veils
Lexham English Bible
the pendants and the bracelets and the veils,
Literal Translation
the pendants, and the bracelets, and the veils;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and colares, bracelettes and hooues,
American Standard Version
the pendants, and the bracelets, and the mufflers;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
the pendants, and the bracelets, and the veils;
King James Version (1611)
The chaines, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The sweete perfumes, and the bracelettes, and the mufflers,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and the chains, and the ornaments of their faces,
English Revised Version
the pendants, and the bracelets, and the mufflers;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and ribans, and brochis, and ournementis of armes nyy the schuldris, and mytris, ether chapelettis,
Update Bible Version
the pendants, and the bracelets, and the mufflers;
Webster's Bible Translation
The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
New English Translation
earrings, bracelets, veils,
New King James Version
The pendants, the bracelets, and the veils;
New Living Translation
earrings, bracelets, and veils;
New Life Bible
rings worn on their ears and arms, face-coverings,
New Revised Standard
the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarfs;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
the pendants and the bracelets and the veils;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And chains and necklaces, and bracelets, and bonnets,
Revised Standard Version
the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarfs;
Young's Literal Translation
Of the drops, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
dangling earrings, bracelets, veils,

Contextual Overview

16 Again, the Lord has said, Because the daughters of Zion are full of pride, and go with outstretched necks and wandering eyes, with their foot-chains sounding when they go: 17 The Lord will send disease on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will let their secret parts be seen. 18 In that day the Lord will take away the glory of their foot-rings, and their sun-jewels, and their moon-ornaments, 19 The ear-rings, and the chains, and the delicate clothing, 20 The head-bands, and the arm-chains, and the worked bands, and the perfume-boxes, and the jewels with secret powers, 21 The rings, and the nose-jewels, 22 The feast-day dresses, and the robes, and the wide skirts, and the handbags, 23 The looking-glasses, and the fair linen, and the high head-dresses, and the veils. 24 And in the place of sweet spices will be an evil smell, and for a fair band a thick cord; for a well-dressed head there will be the cutting-off of the hair, and for a beautiful robe there will be the clothing of sorrow; the mark of the prisoner in place of the ornaments of the free. 25 Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

chains: or, sweet-balls, Neteephoth earrings or drops; in Arabic, netafaṫ

the bracelets: Genesis 24:22, Genesis 24:30, Genesis 24:53, Genesis 38:18, Genesis 38:25, Exodus 35:22, Numbers 31:50, Ezekiel 16:11

mufflers: or, spangled ornaments

Reciprocal: Psalms 73:6 - as a chain Proverbs 1:9 - an ornament

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I took it.
Genesis 3:13
And the Lord God said to the woman, What have you done? And the woman said, I was tricked by the deceit of the snake and I took it.
Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.
Genesis 3:21
And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins for their clothing.
Genesis 3:22
And the Lord God said, Now the man has become like one of us, having knowledge of good and evil; and now if he puts out his hand and takes of the fruit of the tree of life, he will go on living for ever.
Genesis 18:27
And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:
Genesis 23:4
I am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to rest.
Job 1:21
With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.
Job 19:26
And Three dots are used where it is no longer possible to be certain of the true sense of the Hebrew words, and for this reason no attempt has been made to put them into Basic English. without my flesh I will see God;
Job 21:26
Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The chains,.... According to Kimchi and R. Levi ben Gersom on Judges 8:26 these were drop bottles, or vessels of gold, in which were put stacte or balsam; and the former says here, they were such in which balsam was put, and women hung about their necks; though, he observes, some interpret them of chains, which were made of small stones of bdellium; hence pure bdellium is called in the Arabic tongue

אלנטף; and so Jarchi renders the word "chains"; and they are called by this name, because they hang about the neck, and drop upon the breast, and are in the form of precious stones, bored and strung:

and the bracelets; hand bracelets, according to the Targum; such as Abraham's servant gave to Rebekah, Genesis 24:22:

and the mufflers; these were veils which covered the whole face, excepting the eyes, the same that we call masks: it is said a of the Arabian women, that they went out רעולות; that is, as Bartenora explains it, they were veiled about the head, so that the whole face was covered, excepting their eyes; though Maimonides interprets them of little bells, which the Arabian women went out with; the Targum here explains the word by "women's veils"; though some think only the "spangles" which were on them are meant, so called from their trembling and shaking motion.

a Misn. Sabbat, c. 6. sect. 6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The chains - Margin, “sweet balls.” The word used here is derived from the verb נטף nâṭaph, to drop, to fall in drops, or to distil,” as juice from a plant. Hence, it means that which “resembles drops” - as pearls, or precious stones, used as ornaments for the neck or ears. We retain a similar word as applicable to the ornaments of the ears, by calling them “drops.” The Chaldee renders this “chains,” and so also the Vulgate. The Septuagint understands it of a “hanging” or “pendant” ornament - and this is its undoubted meaning - an ornament pendant like gum distilling from a plant. ‘These consist, first, of one most beautifully worked, with a pendant ornament for the neck; there is also a profusion of others which go round the same part, and rest on the bosom. In making curious chains, the goldsmiths of England do not surpass those of the East.’ - “Roberts.”

And the bracelets - For the wrists. The Chaldee translates it, ‘bracelets for the hands.’ These ornaments were very ancient; see Genesis 24:22; Numbers 31:50. - Mahomet promises to those who shall follow him, gold and silver bracelets. ‘The bracelets are large ornaments for the wrists, in which are sometimes enclosed small bells.’ - “Roberts.”

Mufflers - Margin, “spangled ornaments.” The word used here is derived from a verb, “to tremble, to shake” - רעל râ‛al - and the name is given to the ornament, whatever it was, probably from its “tremulous” motion. Perhaps it means a “light, thin veil;” or possibly, as in the margin, spangled ornaments, producing a tremulous, changing aspect. In Zechariah 7:2, the word is used to denote ‘trembling’ - giddiness, or intoxication. It was early customary, and is still common in Oriental countries, for the females to wear veils. No female ventures abroad without her veil. That which is supposed to be intended here, is described by the Arabian scholiast Safieri, quoted by Gesenius. It is drawn tight over the upper part of the head, but the part around the eyes is open, and a space left to see through, and the lower part is left loose and flowing, and thus produces the “tremulous” appearance indicated in this place; see the notes and illustrations at Isaiah 3:24.


 
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