Handkerchief

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Only once in KJV (Act_19:12). The Greek word (sudarion) so rendered means properly “a sweat-cloth.” It is rendered “napkin” in Joh_11:44; Joh_20:7; Luk_19:20.


haṇ´kẽr-chif (σουδάριον, soudárion):

A loan-word from the Latin sudarium, found in plural in Act_19:12, soudária; compare sudor, “perspiration”; literally, “a cloth used to wipe off perspiration.”

Elsewhere it is rendered “napkin” (Luk_19:20; Joh_11:44; Joh_20:7), for which see Dress; Napkin.

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