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Mantle
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Mantle. The word employed, in the Authorized Version, to translate no less than four Hebrew terms, entirely distinct and independent in both derivation and meaning.
1. Judges 4:18. The garment with which Jael covered Sisera.
2. Rendered "mantle" in 1 Samuel 15:27; 1 Samuel 28:14; Ezra 9:3; Ezra 9:5; etc. This word is, in other passages of the Authorized Version, rendered "coat," "cloak" and "robe."
3. Isaiah 3:22 only. Apparently some article of a lady's dress.
1 Kings 19:13; 1 Kings 19:19; 2 Kings 2:8; 2 Kings 2:13-14. The sole garment of the prophet Elijah. It was probably of sheepskin, such as is worn by the modern dervishes.
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Smith, William, Dr. Entry for 'Mantle'. Smith's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/sbd/m/mantle.html. 1901.
Smith, William, Dr. Entry for 'Mantle'. Smith's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/sbd/m/mantle.html. 1901.
