GLASS, LOOKING-GLASS, MIRROR.This indispensable article of a ladys toilet is first met with in Exo 38:8, where the laver of brass and its base are said to have been made of the mirrors (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] looking-glasses) of the serving women which served at the door of the tent of meeting (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ). This passage shows that the mirrors of the Hebrews, like those of the other peoples of antiquity, were made of polished bronze, as is implied in the comparison, Job 37:18, of the sky to a molten mirror (RV [Note: Revised Version.] and AV [Note: Authorized Version.] looking-glass). A different Hebrew word is rendered hand mirror by RV [Note: Revised Version.] in the list of toilet articles, Isa 3:23. The fact that this word denotes a writing tablet in Isa 8:1 (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ) perhaps indicates that in the former passage we have an oblong mirror in a wooden frame. The usual shape, however, of the Egyptian (see Wilkinson, Anc. Egyp. ii. 350 f. with illust.), as of the Greek, hand-mirrors was round or slightly oval. As a rule they were furnished with a tang, which fitted into a handle of wood or metal, often delicately carved. Two specimens of circular mirrors of bronze, one 5 inches, the other 41\/2, in diameter, have recently been discovered in Philistine (?) graves at Gezer (PEFSt [Note: Quarterly Statement of the same.] , 1905, 321; 1907, 199 with illusts.).<\/p>\n
In the Apocrypha there is a reference, Sir 12:11, to the rust that gathered on these metal mirrors, and in Wis 7:26 the Divine wisdom is described as the unspotted mirror of the power of God, the only occurrence in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] of mirror, which RV [Note: Revised Version.] substitutes for glass throughout. The NT references, finally, are those by Paul (1Co 13:12, 2Co 3:18) and by James (Jam 1:23). For the sea of glass (RV [Note: Revised Version.] glassy sea) of Rev 4:6; Rev 15:2 see art. Sea of Glass.<\/p>\n
A. R. S. Kennedy.<\/p>\n
Glass, Looking-Glass, Mirror GLASS, LOOKING-GLASS, MIRROR.This indispensable article of a ladys toilet is first met with in Exo 38:8, where the laver of brass and its base are said to have been made of the mirrors (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] looking-glasses) of the serving women which served at the door of the tent of meeting … Continue reading “Glass, Looking-Glass, Mirror”<\/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-51029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51029","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=51029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}