- a pillow:
- Rather, "the net-work of goat's hair at its (the Teraphim's) pillow;" for the kevir, (whence the Chaldee and Syriac kavreetho, a honey-comb, from its net-like form), seems to have been a kind of mosquito-net, which, says Dr. Shaw, is "a close curtain of gauze, used all over the East, by people of fashion, to keep out the flies." That they had such anciently cannot be doubted. Thus when Judith had beheaded Holofernes in his bed ("And Saulª said,ª° Bring hitherª° a burnt offeringª to¹ me, and peace offerings.ª And he offeredª° the burnt offering.ª" {1Sm 13:9} + "And Samuelª arose,ª° and gat him upª° from¹ Gilgalª unto Gibeahª of Benjamin.ª And Saulª numberedª°¹ the peopleª [that were] presentª° with¹ him, about sixª hundredª men.ª" {1Sm 13:15}) "she pulled down the canopy (or the mosquito net, το κωνωπειου, from κωνωψ, a gnat, or mosquito, whence our word canopy) wherein he did lie in his drunkenness, from the pillars."
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