. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . , or cthoneth ; whence the Gr. chiton ; prop-erly = a tunic, Ges., Rbn. N. T. Lex.), resembling 234 DRE DRE in form and use our skirt, though unfortunatelytranslated coat in the A. V. (Gen. iii. 21, &c),sometimes garment (2 Sam. xiii. 18, 19; Ezr. ; Neh. vii. 10, 12), once robe (Is. xxii. 21).The material of which it was made was either wool,cotton, or linen. The primitive tunic was withoutsleeves and reached only to the knee. Anotherkind (Josephs ? see above, II.) reached to thewrists and ankles. It was in either case kept closeto the body by a
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . , or cthoneth ; whence the Gr. chiton ; prop-erly = a tunic, Ges., Rbn. N. T. Lex.), resembling 234 DRE DRE in form and use our skirt, though unfortunatelytranslated coat in the A. V. (Gen. iii. 21, &c),sometimes garment (2 Sam. xiii. 18, 19; Ezr. ; Neh. vii. 10, 12), once robe (Is. xxii. 21).The material of which it was made was either wool,cotton, or linen. The primitive tunic was withoutsleeves and reached only to the knee. Anotherkind (Josephs ? see above, II.) reached to thewrists and ankles. It was in either case kept closeto the body by a girdle, and the fold formed by theoverlapping of the robe served as an inner person wearing the tunic alone was described asnaked, A. V. (1 Sam. xix. 24; Is. xx. 2; Am. ; Jn. xxi. 1). The same expression is elsewhereapplied to the poorly clad (Job xxii. 6; Is. lviii. 1;Jas. ii. 15), and to the literally naked (Job i. 21,xxiv. 1, 10; Is. xx. 4, &c). The annexed woodcut(fig. l) represents the simplest style of Oriental. Fig. 1.—An Egyptian.—(Lanes Modern Ejyptiam.*, dress, a long loose shirt or tunic without a girdle,reaching nearly to the ankle. The same robe, with
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