Frock
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) A loose outer garment; especially, a gown forming a part of European modern costume for women and children; also, a coarse shirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their other clothes; a smock frock; as, a marketman's frock.
(2): ( n.) A coarse gown worn by monks or friars, and supposed to take the place of all, or nearly all, other garments. It has a hood which can be drawn over the head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord.
(3): ( v. t.) To make a monk of. Cf. Unfrock.
(4): ( v. t.) To clothe in a frock.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [2]
Frock . In the Greek text of Sir 40:4 the poor man’s dress is said to be of unbleached linen, paraphrased in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] as ‘a linen’ and in RV [Note: Revised Version.] as ‘a hempen frock.’ The Hebrew original has, ‘he that wraps himself in a mantle of hair’ (Smend), for which see Dress, § 4 ( c ).
A. R. S. Kennedy.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
frok ( שׂמלה , simlāh ; ὡμόλινον , hōmólinon ): The hempen frock, mentioned in Ecclesiasticus 40:4 as a mark of the lowly, was a simple garment consisting of a square piece of cloth wrapped around the body. It is the same as the garment ( simlāh ) which we find the poor man using as his only bed covering by night ( Exodus 22:26 f); the traveler, as the receptacle for his belongings (compare Exodus 12:34 ); and the common people of both sexes as their general outer garments, though there was some difference in appearance between the simlāh of the man and that of the woman ( Deuteronomy 22:5 ). See Dress .
