is given in Jos 9:5 as the rendering of the Heb. verb , (tala elsewhere rendered spotted), which properly means to patch, and denotes that the sandals of the Gibeonites were mended, as if old and worn by a long journey. The cast clouts (, sechabah’, literally a tearing in pieces) put under Jeremiah’s arms to prevent the cords by which he was drawn out of the dungeon from cutting into the flesh (Jer 38:11-12) were old torn clothes or rags.<\/p>\n
CLOUT.Jer 38:11-12 old cast clouts. The word is still used in Scotland for cloths (as in dish-clout), but for clothes only contemptuously. Formerly there was no contempt in the word. Sir John Mandeville (Travels, Macmillans ed. p. 75) says, And in that well she washed often-time the clouts of her son Jesu Christ. The verb to clout occurs in Jos 9:5, of shoes (Amer. RV [Note: Revised Version.] patched).<\/p>\n
klout: As substantive (, ha-sehabhoth) a patch or piece of cloth, leather, or the like, a rag, a shred, or fragment. Old cast clouts and old rotten rags (Jer 38:11, Jer 38:12 the King James Version). As verb (, tala’) to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout. Old shoes and clouted (the American Standard Revised Version patched) upon their feet (Jos 9:5; compare Shakespeare, Cym., IV, 2: I thought he slept, And put my clouted brogues from off my feet; Milton, Comus: And the dull swain treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.<\/p>\n
Clout is given in Jos 9:5 as the rendering of the Heb. verb , (tala elsewhere rendered spotted), which properly means to patch, and denotes that the sandals of the Gibeonites were mended, as if old and worn by a long journey. The cast clouts (, sechabah’, literally a tearing in pieces) put under Jeremiah’s … Continue reading “Clout”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}