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ephod|ˈɛfɒd|
Also 4 ephoth.
[Heb. ēphōd, f. āphad to put on.]
1. A Jewish priestly vestment, without sleeves, slit at the sides below the armpits, fastened with buckles at the shoulders, and by a girdle at the waist. The high-priest's ephod was of ‘gold, purple, scarlet and fine-twined linen (byssus)’; that worn by others was of linen.
1382Wyclif Ex. xxv. 7 Gemmes to anowrn ephoth, that is, a preestis ouermest clothing, that we cleepen a coope. 1611Bible 2 Sam. vi. 14 Dauid was girded with a linnen Ephod. 1770Chatterton Happiness, The bloody son of Jesse.. made himself an ephod to his mind. 1856Stanley Sinai & Pal. iv. (1858) 205 note, ‘Bring hither the Ephod,’ the priestly cape, dressed in which the High-priest delivered the oracle.
2. transf. A typical priestly garment; † hence used symbolically for ‘the priestly office’, ‘clerical influence’.
1603Drayton Bar. Wars iv. (R.) The holy ephod made a cloak for gain. 1649Selden Laws Eng. i. v. (1739) 13 What the Ephod could not, the Sword wrapt up therein should. 1854Thackeray Newcomes I. 44 Many a good dinner did Charles Honeyman lose by assuming that unlucky ephod [i.e. wearing the surplice in the pulpit]. |