Kerchiefs
KERCHIEFS (from the Fr. couvrechef, a covering for the head) are mentioned only in Eze 13:18; Eze 13:21, a somewhat obscure passage having reference to certain forms of divination or sorcery, which required the head to be covered. They evidently varied in length with the height of the wearer (Eze 13:18), and perhaps resembled the long veils worn by the female captives from Lachish represented on an Assyr. [Note: Assyrian.] sculpture, see Dress, 5 (b).
A. R. S. Kennedy.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Kerchiefs
Veil or small shawl with which the women who prophesied covered the head of persons of ‘every stature:’ alluding probably to their leading people blindfold by their divinations, to catch their souls. Eze 13:18; Eze 13:21.