. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . ban (Job xxix. 14, A. V. diadem; Is. , A. V. hoods). The general Hebrew word for crown is atdr&h, and we must attach to it thenotion of a costly turban irradiated with pearls andgems of priceless value, which often form aigrettes,or plumes, for feathers, as in the crowns of modernAsiatic sovereigns. Such was probably the crown,which with its precious stones weighed (or ratherwas worth) a talent, taken by David from theking of Amnion at Rabbah, and used as the statecrown of Judah (2 Sam. xii. 30). The Gr. Stephanos,in the LXX., = Heb. ,atdruh, a
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . ban (Job xxix. 14, A. V. diadem; Is. , A. V. hoods). The general Hebrew word for crown is atdr&h, and we must attach to it thenotion of a costly turban irradiated with pearls andgems of priceless value, which often form aigrettes,or plumes, for feathers, as in the crowns of modernAsiatic sovereigns. Such was probably the crown,which with its precious stones weighed (or ratherwas worth) a talent, taken by David from theking of Amnion at Rabbah, and used as the statecrown of Judah (2 Sam. xii. 30). The Gr. Stephanos,in the LXX., = Heb. ,atdruh, and is used in theN. T. for every kind of crown; the Gr. stemma isused once (Acts xiv. 13) for the garlands usedwith victims. In Rev. xii. 3, xiii. 1, xix. 12, allusion is made to many ■ crowns worn in token of ex-tended dominion. In these passages the Gr. dia-dema (= diadem) is used. The laurel, pine, orparsley crowns given to victors in the great gamesof Greece are finely alluded to by St. Paul (1 25 ; 2 Tim. ii. 5, &c).. Egyptian, Assyrian, and other Crowns.—(Fairbairn). 1. Egyptian crown of the upper country.—Wilkinson. 2. Egyptian crown of the lower country.—Wilkinson. 3. Egyptian crown of the united upper and lower countries.—Wilkinscn. 4. Assyrian crown of a king in Nineveh.—Layard. 5. Assyrian crown of Sardanapalus III.—Layard. 6. Assyrian crown of Sennacherib.—Layard. 7. Crown of Tigranes, king of Syria,—F rom a tetradrachm. 8. Crown from sculpture at Persepolis.—Sir Robert Ker Porters Tiarefo. 9. Civic crown.—From coin of the Roman emperor Galba. Crown cf Thorns (Mat. xxvii. 29; Mk. xv. 17;Jn. xix. 2, 5). Our Lord was crowned with thornsin mockery by the Roman soldiers. The objectseems to have been insult, and not the infliction ofpain as has generally been supposed. The Rham-nus or Spina Christi, although abundant in theneighborhood of Jerusalem, cannot be the plant in-tended, because its thorns are so strong and largethat it could not ha
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