stocks, tinkling ornament
“Ornaments” From Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:
(adornments). Of infinite variety among Oriental peoples (Gen. 24:22; Isa. 3:16-25; Jer. 2:32; Ezek. 16:11-19).
“Stocks” From Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:
(sticks). Tree-trunks (Job 14:8); idols (Jer. 2:27); instruments of punishment made of beams of wood which closed over the arms or ankles (Job 13:27; 33:11; Jer. 20:2; Acts 16:24).
“Tinkling Ornaments” From Concise Bible Dictionary:
See ANKLETS.
“Stocks” From Concise Bible Dictionary:
Stocks
Various words are used for these instruments of punishment.
1. mahpecheth, a wooden frame in which the feet, hands, and neck of a person were so fastened that his body was kept bent. Jeremiah was subjected to this punishment (Jer. 20:2-3).
2. sad, stocks in which the feet were shut up (Job 13:27; Job 33:11; Acts 16:24—ξύλον).
3. tsinoq, stocks which confined the hands and the feet (Jer. 29:26).
4. ekes, “a fetter or ancle-band” (Prov. 7:22).
Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:
Meaning:
from 5913; a fetter; hence, an anklet
KJV Usage:
stocks, tinkling ornament
From Manners and Customs of the Bible:
Judges 8:21. The ornaments that were on their camels’ necks.
Saharonim, here translated ornaments, is in Isaiah 3:18, rendered “round tires like the moon.” In Judges 8:26 it is said that there were chains about the camels’ necks. It thus appears that these camels had gold chains around their necks on which were the saharonim, or little moons, probably gold ornaments shaped like a moon either full or crescent. “Perhaps they were made in honor of the moon-faced Astarte, and intimated that they who bore them were placed under her protection. The taking away of these ornaments would thus be a removal of idolatrous objects” (Wordsworth). The Arabs of the present day are accustomed to hang ornaments around the necks of their camels. Some are shaped like crescents, and are made of cowrie shells sewed on a band of leather or cloth.