Mantle

Webster's Dictionary

(1): (n.) A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope.

(2): (n.) Same as Mantling.

(3): (n.) Any free, outer membrane.

(4): (v. i.) To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool.

(5): (n.) The external fold, or folds, of the soft, exterior membrane of the body of a mollusk. It usually forms a cavity inclosing the gills. See Illusts. of Buccinum, and Byssus.

(6): (n.) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.

(7): (n.) A mantel. See Mantel.

(8): (n.) The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.

(9): (n.) A penstock for a water wheel.

(10): (v. i.) To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc.

(11): (v. t.) To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise.

(12): (v. i.) To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; - said of hawks. Also used figuratively.

(13): (v. i.) To spread out; - said of wings.

King James Dictionary

MAN'TLE, n. Gr. a cloke.

1. A kind of cloke or loose garment to be worn over other garments.

The herald and children are clothed with mantles of satin.

2. A cover.

Well covered with the night's black mantle.

3. A cover that which conceals as the mantle of charity.

MAN'TLE, To cloke to cover to disguise.

So the rising senses

Begin to chase th'ignorant fumes, that mantle

Their clearer reason.

MAN'TLE, To expand to spread.

The swan with arched neck

Between her white wings mantling, rows

Her state with oary feet.

1. To joy to revel.

My frail fancy, fed with full delights,

Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease.

2. To be expanded to be spread or extended.

He gave the mantling vine to grow,

A trophy to his love.

3. To gather over and form a cover to collect on the surface, as a covering.

There is a sort of men, whose visages

Do cream and mantle like a standing pond.

And the brain dances to the mantling bowl.

4. To rush to the face and cover it with a crimson color.

When mantling blood

Flow'd in his lovely cheeks.

Fermentation cannot be deduced from mangling, otherwise than as a secondary sense.

MAN'TLE,

Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament

The word ‘mantle’ occurs in the Revised Versionin Hebrews 1:12, replacing ‘vesture’ of the Authorized Version. The passage is a quotation from Psalms 102:26 (27); cf. Psalms 104:6. In both places the Septuagintπεριβόλαιον is a translation of Heb. לְבוּשׁ, ‘clothing.’ The term is appropriate to certain over-garments of ancient peoples, which were literally cast around the body, in contrast to the under-garments, which were put on. In a more restricted sense the same term is employed in 1 Corinthians 11:15 to denote ‘veil.’

A description of the only specific mantle occurring in the relevant section of Scripture will be found under articleCloke. See also articleClothes.

W. Cruickshank.

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

(1) Semikah , the thick plaid or rug wherewith Jael covered Sisera (Judges 4:18).

(2) The meil , the priestly robe which the child Samuel's mother made for him, a miniature of his robe in later life (1 Samuel 2:19; 1 Samuel 15:27; 1 Samuel 28:14).

(3) Μataphah (Isaiah 3:22), a lady's outer full tunic, with sleeves, reaching to the feet.

(4) 'addereth , Elijah the prophet's sole mantle except the leather girdle about his loins (1 Kings 19:13; 1 Kings 19:19); the Septuagint render it "sheepskin." The recognized dress of a prophet (Zechariah 13:4, "a rough garment" of prophets).

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Mantle. The word employed, in the Authorized Version, to translate no less than four Hebrew terms, entirely distinct and independent in both derivation and meaning.

1. Judges 4:18. The garment with which Jael covered Sisera.

2. Rendered "mantle" in 1 Samuel 15:27; 1 Samuel 28:14; Ezra 9:3; Ezra 9:5; etc. This word is, in other passages of the Authorized Version, rendered "coat," "cloak" and "robe."

3. Isaiah 3:22 only. Apparently some article of a lady's dress.

1 Kings 19:13; 1 Kings 19:19; 2 Kings 2:8; 2 Kings 2:13-14. The sole garment of the prophet Elijah. It was probably of sheepskin, such as is worn by the modern dervishes.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Περιβόλαιον (Strong'S #4018 — Noun Neuter — peribolaion — per-ib-ol'-ah-yon )

lit., "that which is thrown around," is translated "mantle" in Hebrews 1:12 , RV (AV, "vesture.") See Covering , Veil.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Maataphoth, plural, only in Isaiah 3:22 , denoting a large exterior tunic worn by females. (See Dress .)

Copyright StatementThese dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain.

Bibliography InformationEaston, Matthew George. Entry for 'Mantle'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/m/mantle.html. 1897.

Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types

2 Kings 2:14 (c) This is an emblem of authority. Elijah, who was the master of Elisha, left this garment for Elisha, so that all would know that Elisha now was the successor to Elijah, and could and would exercise all the powers of Elijah. It may be understood as a type of spiritual power conveyed from the greater to the lesser.

Holman Bible Dictionary

1 Samuel 15:271 Kings 19:13Isaiah 3:22Job 1:20DressVeil

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

MANTLE. See Dress, § 4 ( c ).

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

See Garments .

Morrish Bible Dictionary

See GARMENTS.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

man´t ' 50  : Used 5 times of Elijah's mantle ( אדּרת , 'addereth , 1 Kings 19:18 , 1 Kings 19:19; 2 Kings 2:8 , 2 Kings 2:13 , 2 Kings 2:14 ), which was probably of hair. Found in plural once (Isaiah 3:22 ), where it ( ma‛aṭāphōth ) is an upper wide tunic with sleeves ( kethōneth ). See Dress; Kerchief .

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Bibliography InformationMcClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Mantle'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/m/mantle.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.