A dictionary of the . ly continue morethan five or ten minutes, incalculable |destruction would result. The largest jhail falls in hot countries, where hail isless frequent. Inspiration often uses this agency fig-uratively to picture the awful judgmentsof God. In Rev. 16 : 21 hail-stones arementioned of a talent in weight, or, ifthe language were literal, of 55, andperhaps 113, pounds, according as theAttic or Jewish talent be intended; inall probability the former. HAIR. The difference between theHebrews and their neighbors, the Egyp-tians, in the matter of wearing their hairis early,
A dictionary of the . ly continue morethan five or ten minutes, incalculable |destruction would result. The largest jhail falls in hot countries, where hail isless frequent. Inspiration often uses this agency fig-uratively to picture the awful judgmentsof God. In Rev. 16 : 21 hail-stones arementioned of a talent in weight, or, ifthe language were literal, of 55, andperhaps 113, pounds, according as theAttic or Jewish talent be intended; inall probability the former. HAIR. The difference between theHebrews and their neighbors, the Egyp-tians, in the matter of wearing their hairis early, though incidentally, alluded toin the Bible. Thus Joseph, on beingsummoned into the presence of Pha-raoh, shaved himself, while in mostother countries it would have been suffi-cient to comb his hair and trim hisbeard. But the Egyptian men—out ofnotions of cleanliness perhaps—shavedtheir heads; the priests shaved theirwhole bodies every third day. Thewomen, however, wore their naturalhair long and plaited. In place of the. Egyptian mode of wearing the hair. (From apainting. British Museum.) natural hair, wigs were worn by the men ;and these were so constructed as to afford \more protection against the sun than themore modern turbans. The Assyrians, and the Asiatics gen-erally, the neighbors of the Hebrews onthe east, had opposite customs in regardto the hair of men. On the Assyriansculptures the hair appears long andcombed closely down upon the head:the beard is also full length. False hair seems to have been plaited in to makethe greater show. Much care was givento the hair. The Greeks were great admirers oflong hair in both men and women. Theirmanner of wearing it varied. The Ro-man men at the time of Christ woretheir hair short. Shaving was also cus-tomary, and a long beard was regardedas slovenly. The Hebrews were accustomed to cutthe hair very much as we do, and musthave used a kind of scissors, 2 Sam. 14:26. But in the case of a vow or relig-ious obligation they let i
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