Leather
4 lines · 8 passages
Leather in the Bible Dictionary
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Belts of
2 Kgs 1:8; Matt 3:4
8 And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
2 Kings 1:84 And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
Matthew 3:4 -
Tanning of
Acts 9:43; 10:5, 6
43 And it came to pass, that he tarried many days in Joppa with one Simon a tanner.
Acts 9:435 And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter:
Acts 10:56 He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do.
Acts 10:6 -
Called “skin,”
Gen 3:21; Mark 1:6
21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
Genesis 3:216 And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;
Mark 1:6 -
Called “hide,”
Lev 8:17
17 But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Leviticus 8:17
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
