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Handkerchief

From: Concise Bible Dictionary: H

By: George A. Morrish

Narrator: Chris Genthree

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Any small cloth (Acts 19:12¹²So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them. (Acts 19:12)). The same is translated “napkin” (Luke 19:20²⁰And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin: (Luke 19:20); John 11:44⁴⁴And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go. (John 11:44); John 20:7⁷And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself. (John 20:7)).

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