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Easton's Bible Dictionary

Overlay with stones (2 Chronicles 3:6), adorn (Revelation 21:19), deck with garlands (Matthew 23:29), furnish (12:44).

In Job 26:13 (Hebrews shiphrah, meaning "brightness"), "By his spirit the heavens are brightness" i.e., are bright, splendid, beautiful.

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (v. t.) To surround with additions; to adorn; to embellish.

2. (v. t.) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.

3. (v. t.) To furnish; to supply.

4. (v. t.) To fit with fetters.

5. (v. t.) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee. See Garnishee, v. t.

6. (n.) Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated.

7. (n.) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment. See Garnish, v. t., 2.

8. (v. t.) Fetters.

9. (n.) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer.


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