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Leathern
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
denotes "of skin leather" (from derma, "skin, hide of beasts," akin to dero, "to flay;" whence Eng., "derm," "dermal," "dermatology"); it is translated "leather" in Matthew 3:4 , of John the Baptist's girdle; in Mark 1:6 , RV (AV, "of a skin"). See SKIN.
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Leathern'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/l/leathern.html. 1940.