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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

Used by Hebrews

(2 Kings 1:8⁸And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite. (2 Kings 1:8); Matt. 3:4⁴And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. (Matthew 3:4)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

Elijah is described as a “hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather” (2 Kings 1:8⁸And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite. (2 Kings 1:8)). The same Hebrew word is many times translated “skin.” In the New Testament John the Baptist had about his loins a “leathern girdle” (Matt. 3:4⁴And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. (Matthew 3:4)); or “of a skin” as in Mark 1:6⁶And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey; (Mark 1:6). We read of Simon a tanner (Acts 9:43⁴³And it came to pass, that he tarried many days in Joppa with one Simon a tanner. (Acts 9:43); Acts10:6, 32); and the monuments show that the art of tanning was practiced in Egypt, so that without doubt it was also known to the Israelites.

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Leather to be dyed at a Moroccan tannery.