. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . s. ; Ecclus. xlvii. 3;, Rev. xiii. 2. Beard. Western Asiatics have always cherishedthe beard as the badge of the dignity of manhood,and attached to it the importance of a feature. TheEgyptians, on the contrary, sedulously, for the mostpart, shaved the hair of the face and head and com-pelled their slaves to do the like. They, however,wore a false beard of plaited hair, and of varyinglength and form, according to the wearers enemies of the Egyptians, including probablymany of the nations of Canaan, Syria, and Armenia,&c, are represented
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . s. ; Ecclus. xlvii. 3;, Rev. xiii. 2. Beard. Western Asiatics have always cherishedthe beard as the badge of the dignity of manhood,and attached to it the importance of a feature. TheEgyptians, on the contrary, sedulously, for the mostpart, shaved the hair of the face and head and com-pelled their slaves to do the like. They, however,wore a false beard of plaited hair, and of varyinglength and form, according to the wearers enemies of the Egyptians, including probablymany of the nations of Canaan, Syria, and Armenia,&c, are represented nearly always bearded. In theNinevite monuments is a series of battle-views fromthe capture of Lachish by Sennacherib, in which 106 BEA BEC the captives have beards like some of those in theEgyptian monuments. There is, however, an ap-pearance of conventionalism both in Egyptian andAssyrian treatment of the hair and beard on monu-ments, which prevents our accepting it as character-istic. Nor is it possible to decide with certaiuty the. Benrds. Egyptian, from Wilkinson (top row). Of other nntbns, from Ro&ellinl and tnv-ird. meaning of the precept (Lev. xix. 27, xxi. 5) regard-ing the corners of the beard. Probably the Jewsretained the hair on the sides of the face betweenthe ear and the eye, which the Arabs and othersshaved away. Size and fulness of beard are said tobe regarded, at the present day, as a mark of re-spectability and trustworthiness. The beard is theobject of an oath, and that on which blessings,shame, &c, are spoken of as resting. The customwas and is to shave or pluck it and the hair out inmourning (Is. 1. 6, xv. 2; Jer. xli. 5, xlviii. 37;Ezr. ix. 3; Bar. vi. 31); to neglect it in seasons ofpermanent affliction (2 Sam. xix. 24), and to regardany insult to it as the last outrage which enmity caninflict (x. 4; compare Is. vii. 20). The beard wasthe object of salutation (2 Sam. xx. 9). The dress-ing, trimming, anointing, &c, of the beard, was performed with much c
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