International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Shroud

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Shroud


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shroud (חרשׁ, ḥōresh, “bough”): Winding-sheet for the dead. See BURIAL. Used in the King James Version, the English Revised Version in the rare old sense of “shelter,” “covering.” the American Standard Revised Version has “a forest-like shade” חרשׁ, ḥōresh, “wood,” “wooded height”) (, etc.). Compare Milton, Comus, 147.