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Douay-Rheims Bible

Isaiah 3:19

And chains and necklaces, and bracelets, and bonnets,

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;
Bible in Basic English
The ear-rings, and the chains, and the delicate clothing,
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;
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 And the Lord said: Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and have walked with stretched out necks, and wanton glances of their eyes, and made a noise as they walked with their feet and moved in a set pace: 17 The Lord will make bald the crown of the head of the daughters of Sion, and the Lord will discover their hair. 18 In that day the Lord will take away the ornaments of shoes, and little moons, 19 And chains and necklaces, and bracelets, and bonnets, 20 And bodkins, and ornaments of the legs, and tablets, and sweet balls, and earrings, 21 And rings, and jewels hanging on the forehead, 22 And changes of apparel, and short cloaks, and fine linen, and crisping pins, 23 And lookingglasses, and lawns, and headbands, and fine veils. 24 And instead of a sweet smell there shall be stench, and instead of a girdle, a cord, and instead of curled hair, baldness, and instead of a stomacher, haircloth. 25 Thy fairest men also shall fall by the sword, and thy valiant ones in battle.

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 Adam said: The woman, whom thou gavest me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
Genesis 3:13
And the Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? And she answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.
Genesis 3:16
To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband’s power, and he shall have dominion over thee.
Genesis 3:21
And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.
Genesis 3:22
And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now therefore lest perhaps he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.
Genesis 18:27
And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.
Genesis 23:4
I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead.
Job 1:21
And said: Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord, so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord.
Job 19:26
And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I shall see my God.
Job 21:26
And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them.

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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