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The Definition of the word Tires

Tires

To tire the head is to adorn it (2 Kings 9:30). As a noun the "word is derived from "tiara," and is the rendering of the Heb." "p'er, a "turban" or an ornament for the head (Ezek. 24:17; R.V.," headtire; 24:23). In Isa. 3:18 the word saharonim is rendered "round tires like the moon, and in Judg. 8:21, 26 "ornaments," "but in both cases "crescents" in the Revised Version."


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