Skirt

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( v. t.) To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity.

(2): ( n.) A petticoat.

(3): ( n.) The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.

(4): ( n.) The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.

(5): ( n.) A loose edging to any part of a dress.

(6): ( n.) Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything

(7): ( v. t.) To cover with a skirt; to surround.

(8): ( v. t.) To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees.

King James Dictionary

Skirt n.

1. The lower and loose part of a coat or other garment the part below the waist as the skirt of a coat or mantle.  1 Samuel 15 2. The edge of any part of dress. 3. Border edge margin extreme part as the skirt of a forest the skirt of a town. 4. A woman's garment like a petticoat. 5. The diaphragm or midriff in animals.

To spread the skirt over, in Scripture, to take under one's care and protection  Ruth 3

SKIRT, To border to form the border or edge or to run along the edge as a plain skirted by rows of trees a circuit skirted round with wood.

SKIRT, To be on the border to live near the extremity.

Savages--who skirt along our western frontiers.

Holman Bible Dictionary

Kanaph   1 Samuel 24:11 Deuteronomy 22:30 Deuteronomy 27:20 Ruth 3:7-14 2 Peh  Psalm 130:2 Shul   Jeremiah 13:22 13:26 Lamentations 1:9 Nahum 3:5 Isaiah 47:1-3 Nahum 3:5Clothing Cloth

Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types

 Ruth 3:9 (c) The action mentioned here probably refers to the sealing of a friendship which was based on relationship. It is an indication that he was accepting her as her near kinsman, and therefore would be her protector. (See also  Ezekiel 16:8).

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

SKIRT . See Dress 4 ( b ).

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

is the rendering in the A.V. properly of שׁוּל , Shul (so called as being pendulous), the flowing train of a female dress ("skirts,"  Jeremiah 13:22;  Jeremiah 13:26;  Lamentations 1:9;  Nahum 3:5; "train,"  Isaiah 6:1; elsewhere "hem"); more vaguely of כָּנָ , Kanaph (literally a Wing ) , the flap of a robe ( Deuteronomy 22:30;  Deuteronomy 27:20;  Ruth 3:9;  1 Samuel 15:27;  1 Samuel 24:4-5;  1 Samuel 24:11;  Ezekiel 5:3;  Haggai 2:12;  Zechariah 8:23); improperly of פֶּה , peh (literally the Mouth, as usually rendered), the upper Opening of a garment around the neck ( Psalms 133:2; "hole,"  Exodus 28:32;  Exodus 39:23; "collar,"  Job 30:18). To raise the skirts of a female's garment is put for a symbol of the greatest insult and disgrace ( Jeremiah 13:22;  Jeremiah 13:26;  Nahum 3:5; comp.  Isaiah 57:2); whereas to cover her with one's skirt was a token of matrimony ( Ruth 3:9), or to remove it was preliminary to sexual intercourse ( Deuteronomy 23:1); the wide Oriental outer garment serving as a coverlet by night. (See Dress).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

skûrt  : (1) כּנף , kānāph , "wing" "extremity" (Rth 3:9, etc.), is the usual word. But in   1 Samuel 24:4 ff perhaps "corner" is the best translation. (2) שׁוּל , shūl , "loose hanging" ( Exodus 28:33 , etc.; in the King James Version often rendered "hem"). (3) פּה , peh , "mouth," "opening" ( Psalm 133:2 , "the precious oil ... that came down upon the skirt"). But the "opening" is that for is that for the head, so that the Revised Version margin "collar" is the correct translation. "Skirt" is frequently used in a euphemistic sense, for which the commentaries must be consulted. See Dress; Train .