Anklet; Ankle-Chain

ANKLET; ANKLE-CHAIN

an'-klet, an'-k'-l-chan:

"Anklets" is rightly found in Isaiah 3:18 the Revised Version (British and American), and "ankle-chains" in Numbers 31:50 the Revised Version (British and American). A cognate word of essentially the same meaning is used in Isaiah 3:20, and is rendered by the King James Version "ornaments of the legs." It was these "anklets" that Isaiah represented the ladies of Jerusalem as "rattling" as they walked (Isaiah 3:16 to end), "making a tinkling with their feet"; and a part of the punishment threatened is, "The Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet" (Isaiah 3:16 the King James Version).


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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'ANKLET; ANKLE-CHAIN'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.