Change of raiment (Hastings' Dictionary)

The expression occurs in Gn 45'-^, where Joseph gives to Benjamin five changes of raiment (nSpf nis^q) ; in Jg 14', '", where Samson offers thirty changes of garments (d"^J3 'n) ; also in 2 K S'- '■'-• ^, as part of Naaman's gift. In Jg 17'° part of Micali's wages was to be an outfit of clothing (d'ij3 ^tj,:). The separate mention (Jg 14'-) of the innermost garment (i'")D AV ' sheet,' RV ' linen garment ') indicates that ' change of raiment ' referred to outer articles of dress. These, under some difference of name, pattern, and material, ace. to life in desert, village, or city, were two : (1) the coat or tunic (n3h3, x"'wi'), in the form of a dressing-gown worn with girdle ; and (2) the cloak or mantle (S'vn, lixdnof), of more ample and loose pattern. See Coat, Cloak, Dress. G. M. Mackie. CHANT was formerly (and is still poetically) used as a simple synonym for 'sing.' So Am 6' 'that chant (Coverdale, 'synge') to the sound of the viol ' {aip [all], RV ' sing idle songs '). CHANUNEOS {Xavovraioi, AV Channuneus), 1 Es 8** (•" LXX). — A Levite, answering to Merari, if to anything, in the parallel list in Ezr 8".