<strong>ATTIRE</strong> (see [[Dress]])<br /><br />

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<strong>ATTIRE</strong>. <em>See</em> [[Dress]], [[Clothing]].<br /><br />

<h2>International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)</h2>

a-tir’: "Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire?" asks the prophet Jeremiah in hot remonstrance against Israel’s unfaithfulness. "Yet," saith Yahweh, "my people have forgotten me" (2:32). "And I saw that she was defiled," cries Ezekiel against Jerusalem; "she saw men ... girded with girdles upon their loins, with flowing turbans [AV exceeding in dyed attire] upon their heads, ..... after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, .... and .... she doted upon them .... "(<bibleref ref="Ezek.23.13-Ezek.23.16">Eze 23:13-16</bibleref>). "And, behold, there met him," says the author of Pr (<bibleref ref="Prov.7.10">Pr 7:10</bibleref>) in his description of the "strange woman," that "lieth in wait at every street corner," "a woman with the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart," whose "house is the way to Sheol" (<bibleref ref="Prov.7.27">Pr 7:27</bibleref>). These passages show how diversely and elastically the term "attire" was used among the Hebrews. The numerous synonyms for "dress," "attire," "apparel," "clothes," "raiment," "garment," etc., found in <span class="auto-link">[[English Versions]]</span> of the Bible, reflect a similar wealth of nomenclature in the original Hebrew and Greek; but the lack of exactness and consistency in the renderings of translators makes the identification of the various articles of dress referred to very difficult, sometimes impossible. See [[Dress]].<br /><br />

George B. Eager<br /><br />

Attire