Treasury of Scripture
an image [heb] teraphim
Genesis 31:19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.
Judges 17:5 And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
Judges 18:14,17 Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said to their brothers...
Hosea 3:4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image...
a pillow. Rather, `the net-work of goat's hair at its (the Teraphim's) pillow;' for the kevir, (whence the Chaldee and Syriac kavreetho, a honey-comb, form its net-like form), seems to have been a kind of mosquito-net, which, says Dr. Shaw, is `a close curtain of gauze, used all over the East, by people of fashion, to keep out the flies.' That they had such anciently cannot be doubted. Thus when Judith had beheaded Holofernes in his bed, (ch
1 Samuel 13:9,15 And Saul said, Bring here a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering...
) `she pulled down the canopy (or the mosquito net, (), from (), a gnat, or mosquito, whence or word canopy) wherein he did lie in his drunkenness, from the pillars.