of a garment, the fringe of a garment. The Jews attached much importance to these, because of the regulations in Nu 15:38-39. These borders or fringes were in process of time enlarged so as to attract special notice (Mt 23:5). The hem of Christ's garment touched (Mt 9:20; 14:36; Lu 8:44).
Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.
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