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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_95311" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_95311" /> == | ||
<p> (1): (n.) The European carrion crow. </p> <p> (2): (n.) The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain. </p> | <p> '''(1):''' (n.) The European carrion crow. </p> <p> '''(2):''' (n.) The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain. </p> | ||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_50073" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_50073" /> == | ||
<p> <strong> | <p> <strong> [[Bran]] </strong> . The burning of bran for incense is mentioned in Bar 6:43 as an accompaniment of the idolatrous worship of the women of Babylon. </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_27196" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_27196" /> == | ||
<p> (πίτυρα ) occurs only in the account of the [[Babylonian]] women in the apocryphal [[Epistle]] of Jeremiah (Baruch 6:43), with reference to some idolatrous custom not elsewhere distinctly mentioned (see Fritzsche, Handb. in loc.): "The women also, with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume," etc., referring to the infamous practice of prostitution mentioned by [[Herodotus]] (i, 199). (See [[Babylon]]). </p> | <p> (πίτυρα '')'' occurs only in the account of the [[Babylonian]] women in the apocryphal [[Epistle]] of Jeremiah ( Baruch 6:43), with reference to some idolatrous custom not elsewhere distinctly mentioned (see Fritzsche, ''Handb.'' in loc.): "The women also, with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume," etc., referring to the infamous practice of prostitution mentioned by [[Herodotus]] (i, 199). (See [[Babylon]]). </p> | ||
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_1857" /> == | == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_1857" /> == | ||
