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Holman Bible Dictionary
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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shroud ( חרשׁ , ḥōresh , "bough"): Winding-sheet for the dead. See BURIAL . Used in the King James Version, the English Revised Version Ezekiel 31:3 in the rare old sense of "shelter," "covering." the American Standard Revised Version has "a forest-like shade" חרשׁ , ḥōresh , "wood," "wooded height") (Isaiah 17:9 , etc.). Compare Milton, Comus , 147.