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Word American Tract Society - Definition
WIMPLE A veil or hood; but the Hebrew signifies, properly, a broad and large mantle or shawl. See VEIL. Thus, in Ru 3:15, Boaz gives Ruth six measures of barley, which she carries away in her mantle, rather than veil, as in the English translation. So in Isa 3:22.
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