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HEADBAND.—In 1Ki_20:38; 1Ki_20:41 RV [Note: Revised Version.] this is the correct rendering of the word tr. [Note: translate or translation.] ‘ashes’ in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] . Beyond the fact that it covered the wearer’s forehead its form is unknown. A different word, tr. [Note: translate or translation.] ‘headbands,’ Isa_3:20 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] , more probably represents ‘sashes,’ as in RV [Note: Revised Version.] ; it is used again in Jer_2:32 for the sash or girdle (EV [Note: English Version.] ‘attire’) with which a bride ‘girds’ herself (Isa_49:18 RV [Note: Revised Version.] , the cognate verb).
A. R. S. Kennedy.