Reference: Leather
Easton
a girdle of, worn by Elijah (2Ki 1:8) and John the Baptist (Mt 3:4). Leather was employed both for clothing (Nu 31:20; Heb 11:37) and for writing upon. The trade of a tanner is mentioned (Ac 9:43; 10:6,32). It was probably learned in Egypt.
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Every garment also, and every article of skin and every thing made of goats-hair, and every article of wood, shall ye cleanse (from sin).
And they said unto him - A hairy man, with a leathern girdle girt about his loins. And he said - Elijah the Tishbite, it was.
But John, himself, had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins, - while, his food, was locusts and wild honey.
And it came to pass that, for a considerable number of days, he abode in Joppa, with one Simon, a tanner.
The same is a guest with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea.
Send, therefore, unto Joppa, and fetch Simon, who is surnamed Peter. The same is being entertained in the house of one Simon a tanner, by the sea.
They were stoned, were pierced through, were sawn asunder, by murder, with a sword, died, went about in sheep-skins, in goat-hides, - being in want, suffering tribulation, enduring ill-treatment:
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Morish
Elijah is described as a "hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather." 2Ki 1:8. The same Hebrew word is many times translated 'skin.' In the N.T. John the Baptist had about his loins a 'leathern girdle,' Mt 3:4; or 'of a skin' as in Mr 1:6. We read of Simon a tanner in Ac 9:43; 10:6,32; and the monuments show that the art of tanning was practised in Egypt, so that without doubt it was also known to the Israelites.
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And they said unto him - A hairy man, with a leathern girdle girt about his loins. And he said - Elijah the Tishbite, it was.
But John, himself, had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins, - while, his food, was locusts and wild honey.
and John was clothed with camel's-hair and a leathern girdle about his loins, and was eating locusts and wild honey;
And it came to pass that, for a considerable number of days, he abode in Joppa, with one Simon, a tanner.
The same is a guest with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea.
Send, therefore, unto Joppa, and fetch Simon, who is surnamed Peter. The same is being entertained in the house of one Simon a tanner, by the sea.
Smith
Leather.
The notices of leather in the Bible are singularly few; indeed the word occurs but twice in the Authorized Version, and in each instance in reference to the same object, a girdle.
There are, however, other instances in which the word "leather" might with propriety be substituted for "skin."
Though the material itself is seldom noticed, yet we cannot doubt that it was extensively used by the Jews; shoes, bottles, thongs, garments, ropes and other articles were made of it. The art of tanning, however, was held in low esteem by the Jews.
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and, everything whereon any of them shall fall when they are dead shall be unclean - of any articles of wood, or cloth, or skin, or sackcloth, any article wherewith any work is done, - shall be put in water and shall be unclean until the evening, and then be clean,
either in warp or in weft, made with flax, or with wool, - or in a skin, or in anything wrought of skin;
Every garment also, and every article of skin and every thing made of goats-hair, and every article of wood, shall ye cleanse (from sin).
And they said unto him - A hairy man, with a leathern girdle girt about his loins. And he said - Elijah the Tishbite, it was.
But John, himself, had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins, - while, his food, was locusts and wild honey.