1 Samuel 19:13 (KJV)

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And Michal took an image and laid it in the bed and put a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster and covered it with a cloth

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an image. Heb. teraphim. Ge 31:19 Re 16:5 Re 18:14 Re 18:17 Ho 3:4

a pillow.Rather, "the net-work of goat's hair at its (the Teraphim's) pillow;" for the {kevir,} (whence the Chaldee and Syriac {kavreetho,} a honey-comb, from its net-like form), seems to have been a kind of mosquito-net, which, says Dr. Shaw, is "a close curtain of gauze, used all over the East, by people of fashion, to keep out the flies." That they had such anciently cannot be doubted. Thus when Judith had beheaded Holofernes in his bed, (ch. 13:9, 15) "she pulled down the canopy (or the mosquito net, [ ,] from [ ,] a gnat, or mosquito, whence our word canopy) wherein he did lie in his drunkenness, from the pillars."

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