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Boyd's Bible Dictionary: V
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James P. Boyd
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(carry). The veil (
Gen. 24:65
65
For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself. (Genesis 24:65)
; 38:14;
Ruth 3:15
15
Also he said, Bring the vail that thou hast upon thee, and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her: and she went into the city. (Ruth 3:15)
;
Song of Sol. 5:7
7
The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. (Song of Solomon 5:7)
;
Isa. 3:23
23
The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails. (Isaiah 3:23)
), was a shawl or mantle. The veil proper was worn by Hebrew women only on special occasions, as in marriage (
Gen. 24:65
65
For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself. (Genesis 24:65)
); for ornament (
Song of Sol. 4:1,3
1
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. (Song of Solomon 4:1)
3
Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks. (Song of Solomon 4:3)
); for concealment as in harlotry (
Gen. 38:14
14
And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife. (Genesis 38:14)
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