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 to the sons of Israel, and tell them that they shall make for themselves tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and that they shall put on the tassel of each corner a cord of blue. "It shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, so as to do them and not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you played the harlot,
And a woman who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years, came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak;
and they implored Him that they might just touch the fringe of His cloak; and as many as touched it were cured.
"But they do all their deeds to be noticed by men; for they broaden their phylacteries and lengthen the tassels of their garments.
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