1. (n.) Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band.

2. (v. t.) To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby.

3. (v. t.) To beat; to cudgel.

SWADDLE; SWADDLING-BAND

swod'-'-l, swod'-ling-band (verb chathal, "enwrap," "swaddle" (Ezekiel 16:4), noun chathullah, "swaddling-band" (Job 38:9); verb sparganoo, "to wrap in swaddling clothes" (Luke 2:7, 12), noun spargana (pl.), "swaddling clothes" (The Wisdom of Solomon 7:4). the King James Version also has "swaddle" (Lamentations 2:22) for Taphach, literally, "to extend." But the word means "to carry on the outstretched palms of the hands" (compare Tippuchim, "dandled in the hands," Lamentations 2:20), whence RV's "to dandle"): "To swaddle" and "to swathe" are really the same word, both forms going back to an AS form swethel, "a bandage," but "swaddle" has become the technical term for the wrapping of an infant in the Orient or elsewhere. The oriental swaddling-clothes consist of a square of cloth and two or more bandages. The child is laid on the cloth diagonally and the corners are folded over the feet and body and under the head, the bandages then being tied so as to hold the cloth in position. This device forms the clothing of the child until it is about a year old, and its omission (Ezekiel 16:4) would be a token that the child had been abandoned. The mention of darkness as a "swaddling-band" at the birth of the sea (Job 38:9) is only a poetic way of saying that the sea, at its creation, was covered with clouds and darkness, and to find any idea of restraint involved is fanciful.

Burton Scott Easton

2946. taphach -- to extend, spread
... root Definition to extend, spread NASB Word Usage bore (1), spread (1). span, swaddle. ...
From tephach, from dandling on the palms -- span, swaddle. ...
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2853. chathal -- perhaps entwine, enwrap
... root Definition perhaps entwine, enwrap NASB Word Usage wrapped in cloths (1). swaddle.
A primitive root; to swathe -- X at all, swaddle. 2852, 2853. ...
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O Dear Little Children
... 2. O see in the crib low concealing His might, See here by the rays of the clear
shining light, In cleanliest swaddle the Heavenly Child More beauteous than ...
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Mortification
... How soon doth man decay! When clothes are taken from a chest of sweets. To
swaddle infants, whose young breath. Scarce knows the way,. ...
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Never! Never! Never! Never! Never!
... Our state would be as deplorably destitute as that of Ezekiel's infant, deserted
and cast into the open field with none to swaddle and none to care for it ...
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Swaddle
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth
or band; a swaddling band. ... of infants; as, to swaddle a baby. ...
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Swaddlingband (1 Occurrence)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia SWADDLE; SWADDLING-BAND. swod'-'-l,
swod'-ling-band (verb chathal, "enwrap," "swaddle" (Ezekiel ...
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Swaddling-band (1 Occurrence)
Swaddling-band. Swaddlingband, Swaddling-band. Swaddling-clothes . Int.
Standard Bible Encyclopedia SWADDLE; SWADDLING-BAND. swod ...
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Sustenance (11 Occurrences)

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Swaddled (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Swaddle. Multi-Version Concordance
Swaddled (2 Occurrences). Lamentations 2:22 Thou hast ...
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Swaddling (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swaddle. 2. (a. & n.) from
Swaddle. Multi-Version Concordance Swaddling (3 Occurrences). ...
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Swaddle

Swaddle: (Wrapping, Bundling) of Children

Swaddlingband (1 Occurrence)

Swaddling-band (1 Occurrence)

Sustenance (11 Occurrences)

Swaddled (2 Occurrences)

Swaddling (3 Occurrences)

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