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a-tı̄r´: “Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire?†asks the prophet Jeremiah in hot remonstrance against Israel's unfaithfulness. “Yet,†saith Yahweh, “my people have forgotten me†(). “And I saw that she was defiled,†cries Ezekiel against Jerusalem; “she saw men ... girded with girdles upon their loins, with flowing turbans [AV exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads,... after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea,... and ... she doted upon them ...†(-16). “And, behold, there met him,†says the author of Prov () in his description of the “strange woman,†that “lieth in wait at every street corner,†“a woman with the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart,†whose “house is the way to Sheol†(). These passages show how diversely and elastically the term “attire†was used among the Hebrews. The numerous synonyms for “dress,†“attire,†“apparel,†“clothes,†“raiment,†“garment,†etc., found in English Versions of the Bible, reflect a similar wealth of nomenclature in the original Hebrew and Greek; but the lack of exactness and consistency in the renderings of translators makes the identification of the various articles of dress referred to very difficult, sometimes impossible. See DRESS.