Reference: Headdress
Fausets
The head was usually uncovered. In Le 10:6 the sense of "uncover (literally, "let loose") not your heads" is "let not your hair fall loosely from your head" as in mourning. When needful the head was covered with the mantle; the radid and tsaiph were so used, the veil also. In Job 29:14, "my judgment (justice) was as ... a diadem," translated "a turban," or head-dress of linen rolled around (tsaniph). It and the flowing outer "robe" characterize an oriental grandee or high priest (Zec 3:5). The tsaniyph) was worn also by an adorned lady (Isa 3:23, "hoods" or mitres), also by kings, Isa 62:3. The pe-eer was a holiday ornamental head-dress; (Isa 61:3) "beauty for ashes" (a play on similar sounds, pe-eer epher), to give them the ornamental headdress worn on joyous occasions (Eze 24:17) for the ashes cast on the head in mourning (2Sa 13:19).
The high priest's "mitre" was a twisted band of linen coiled into a cap, like a turban, with a plate or crown of gold in front,. Instead of this the ordinary priests wore "bonnets" (rather caps) "for glory and for beauty." In Isa 61:10, "as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments" (pe-eer), translated" with the priests' ornamental head-dress," appropriate to the "kingdom of priests," consecrated to offer spiritual sacrifices to God continually (Ex 19:6; Re 5:10; 20:6). The pe-eer refers especially to the jewels and ornaments with which the turban is decorated. In Eze 16:10 "I girded thee about with fine linen" may refer to the turban. In Eze 23:15 "exceeding in dyed attire," translated "redundant in dyed turbans," i.e. with ample dyed turbans; the Assyrians delighted in ample richly dyed headdresses anti robes. In Da 3:21 for" hats" translated "outer mantles."
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but you, you will [belong] to me [as] a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words that you will speak to the {Israelites}."
Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, "You must not let your hair hang loosely, and you must not tear your garments, so that you will not die and he will be angry with all the community. But your brothers, all the house of Israel, may weep [because of] {the burning that Yahweh caused},
Tamar put ashes on her head, and she tore the long-sleeved robe which [was] on her. She put her hand on her head, and {she went away, crying out as she went}.
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice [was] like a robe and a headband.
and the mirrors and the linen garments, and the turbans and the wraps.
to {give} for those in mourning in Zion, to give them a head wrap instead of ashes, [the] oil of joy instead of mourning, a garment of praise instead of a faint spirit. And {they will be called} oaks of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, to show his glory.
I will rejoice greatly in Yahweh; my being shall shout in exultation in my God. For he has clothed me [with] garments of salvation, he has covered me [with the] robe of righteousness, as bridegroom adorns [himself] [with] a head wrap like a priest, and as bride adorns herself [with] her jewelry.
And you shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, and a headband of royalty in the hand of your God.
And I clothed you [with] beautiful finished cloth, and I put sandals [on] you [of] fine leather, and I bound you in fine linen, and I covered you [with] costly fabric.
belted with a belt at their waist with turbans on their heads, all of them [giving] [the] appearance of adjutants, the image of the {Babylonians}; Chaldea [was] the land of their birth.
Sigh in silence [for the] dead; you shall not make a mourning ceremony. Bind your turban on you, and you must put your sandals on your feet. You must not cover your [upper] lip, and the bread of {mourners} you shall not eat."
Then these men were bound with their garments, their trousers and their turbans and their [other] clothing, and they were thrown into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire.
And I said, "Let them put a clean headband on his head." And they put a clean headband on his head, and they clothed him [with] garments. And the angel of Yahweh [was] standing [by].
and made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they will reign on the earth."
Blessed and holy [is] the one who has a part in the first resurrection. Over this person the second death has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him a thousand years.
Smith
Head-dress.
The Hebrews do not appear to have regarded a covering for the head as an essential article of dress. Hats were unknown. The earliest notice we have of such a thing is in connection with the sacerdotal vestments.
The tsaniph (something like a turban) is noticed as being worn by nobles,
ladies,
and kings,
while the peer was an article of holiday dress,
Authorized Version "beauty;"
and was worn at weddings.
The ordinary head-dress of the Bedouin consists of the keffieh, a square handkerchief, generally of red and yellow cotton or cotton and silk, folded so that three of the corners hang down over the back and shoulders, leaving the face exposed, and bound round the head by a cord. It is not improbable that a similar covering was used by the Hebrews on certain occasions. The Assyrian head-dress is described in
under the terms "exceeding in dyed attire." The word rendered "hats" in
properly applies to a cloak.
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And for the sons of Aaron you will make tunics, and you will make for them sashes and headdresses; you will make them for glory and for splendor.
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice [was] like a robe and a headband.
and the mirrors and the linen garments, and the turbans and the wraps.
to {give} for those in mourning in Zion, to give them a head wrap instead of ashes, [the] oil of joy instead of mourning, a garment of praise instead of a faint spirit. And {they will be called} oaks of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, to show his glory.
I will rejoice greatly in Yahweh; my being shall shout in exultation in my God. For he has clothed me [with] garments of salvation, he has covered me [with the] robe of righteousness, as bridegroom adorns [himself] [with] a head wrap like a priest, and as bride adorns herself [with] her jewelry.
And you shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, and a headband of royalty in the hand of your God.
belted with a belt at their waist with turbans on their heads, all of them [giving] [the] appearance of adjutants, the image of the {Babylonians}; Chaldea [was] the land of their birth.
Sigh in silence [for the] dead; you shall not make a mourning ceremony. Bind your turban on you, and you must put your sandals on your feet. You must not cover your [upper] lip, and the bread of {mourners} you shall not eat."
And your turban [must be] on your heads, and your sandals [must be] on your feet. You shall not mourn, and you shall not weep, but you shall waste away because of your iniquities, and you shall groan {to one another}.
Then these men were bound with their garments, their trousers and their turbans and their [other] clothing, and they were thrown into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire.