("napkin".) The two translations of the same term, soudarion , the Graecized Latin sudarium , literally, "that wherewith the sweat is wiped off". APRON, simikinthion , the Graecized Latin semicinctium ("wider than the cinctus "). Sudarium means:
(1) a wrapper to fold up money in, Luke 19:20;
(2) a cloth about a corpse's head (John 11:44, Lazarus; John 20:7, our Lord), brought from the crown under the chin;
(3) a handkerchief worn on the head, as the Bedouin's keffieh (Acts 19:12). The semicinctium was the artisan's linen garment for the front of the body.
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