. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . slators have 1 Lev. xix., 19; Dent, xxii., 11 2 Rev. xviii., 12.— 3 Prov. xxxi., 19, 22, 24; Acts ix., 39.—4 The Landand the Book, i., 167. DRESS 282 DRESS not preserved any uniformity in their ren-derings. We must take them up, therefore,according to their original names. The khethoneth, or khuttoneth, correspondingto the Greek chiton, was a loose inner gar-ment or tunic, like the shirt with ns. Orig-inally, perhaps,
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . slators have 1 Lev. xix., 19; Dent, xxii., 11 2 Rev. xviii., 12.— 3 Prov. xxxi., 19, 22, 24; Acts ix., 39.—4 The Landand the Book, i., 167. DRESS 282 DRESS not preserved any uniformity in their ren-derings. We must take them up, therefore,according to their original names. The khethoneth, or khuttoneth, correspondingto the Greek chiton, was a loose inner gar-ment or tunic, like the shirt with ns. Orig-inally, perhaps, it was short and withoutsleeves; but afterward it had sleeves, audwas larger. It was made of wool, cotton, orlinen, of finer or coarser quality, accordingto the means of the wearer. Frequently thisgarment was worn alone, being confined bya girdle. But any oue wearing only thekhethoneth was commonly called naked inScripture, as Saul, when he had stripped offhis upper clothes; Isaiah, when he had laidaside his outer garment of sackcloth; Peter,when he was without his fishers An-other loose under-garment was worn next thebody, called -mdin. It was probably always. Egyptians of the Lower Orders. of linen. It is rendered by our translators sheet or shirt, and might be the linencloth, aindon, cast about the young mansnaked The meil, generally of onepiece, was an upper tunic, larger than thekhethoneth, and worn over it. Travelers or-dinarily wore the two—a fact which givespeculiar significance to Christs prohibitionto his apostles when he sent them forth ontheir missionary The word meil oc-curs very frequently, and is rendered in al-most every conceivable mode by our Finally, there was an outer largewoolen garment, quadrangular, answering tothe present Arabic burnus. Several nameswere given to this, perhaps expressing somedifferences of size and quality. This outergarment was wrapped round the body, orbrought fiver the shoulder, with the ends
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