Tire
an old English word for headdress. It was an ornamental headdress worn on festive occasions, (Ezekiel 24:17,23) and perhaps, as some suppose, also an ornament for the neck worn by both women, (Isaiah 3:18) and men, and even on the necks of camels. (Judges 8:21,26)
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible on Tire
The Eng. word ' tire,' which occurs as a subst. = headdress in Is 3i9, Ezk 24"- ^, Jth 10' 16", is simply an aphetic form of ' attire ' ; it has nothing to do with 'tier' or 'tiara,' though its special application to the dress for the head is per- haps due to such a fanciful connexion. Cf. Adams, II Peter, 70, ' They metamorphose their heads, as ii tliey were ashamed of the liead of God's making, f)roud of the tire-woman's. Sometimes one tire 18 lalf the husband's rent-day ' ; also Spenser, FQ II. ix. 19— ' Her yellow golden heare Wae trimly woven, and in tresses wrought. No other tire she on her head did weare, But crowned with a garland of sweete rosiere.* The verb ' to tire' is used more generally = dress, adorn, as I P 3' Tind., ' For after tiiis maner in the olde tynie dyd the holy wemen which trusted in God, tyer them selves, and were obedient to theii TIRHAKAH TIRZAH 779 husbandes'; though its only occurrence in AV has the sense of attiriiiy the head, 2 K9-'' ' And she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.' The Heb. verb in this last pas- 8a''e is 3…
Fausset's Bible Dictionary on Tire
peer. Eze 24:17; Eze 24:23. The ornamental head-dress or "cap" worn by priests on festive occasions. Isa 61:10, "as a bridegroom decketh himself with a priestly head-dress" (peer); same word as in Isa 61:3, "beauty (peer) for ashes" epher, play upon like sounds); to give the ornamental head tiara for a head-dress of ashes (2Sa 13:19). Appropriate to the kingdom of priests consecrated to offer spiritual sacrifices to God continually (Exo 19:6; Rev 5:10; Rev 20:6).
References
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