Garnish

Garnish - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

Overlay with stones (2 Chr. 3:6), adorn (Rev. 21:19), deck with garlands (Matt. 23:29), furnish (12:44).

In Job 26:13 (Heb. shiphrah, meaning "brightness"), "By his spirit the heavens are brightness" i.e., are bright, splendid, beautiful.

Garnish - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

G`ARNISH, v.t.

1. To adorn; to decorate with appendages; to set off.

All within with flowers was garnished.

2. To fit with fetters; a cant term.

3. To furnish; to supply; as a fort garnished with troops.

4. In law, to warn; to give notice. [See Garnishee.]

G`ARNISH, n. Ornament; something added for embellishment; decoration.

Matter and figure they produce;

For garnish this, and that for use.

1. In jails, fetters; a cant term.

2. Pensiuncula carceraria; a fee; an acknowledgment in money when first a prisoner goes to jail.

gar'-nish (tsippah, shiphrah; kosmeo):

The word is used twice in the Old Testament. In 2Ch 3:6, tsippah means "to overlay," or "to plate." Thus, he "garnished" the house or "overlaid" it, "studded" it, with precious stones, and thus adorned and beautified it. In Job 26:13, shiphrah is a feminine noun meaning "fairness," "beauty," "brilliancy." "By his Spirit the heavens are garnished," i.e. the clouds are driven off by the wind or breath of Yahweh, and the sky made bright and clear.

In the New Testament (Mt 12:44; 23:29) the word kosmeo means "set in order," "make ready," "adorn," etc. In Mt 25:7 it is translated "trimmed," and in Re 21:19 "adorned."

J. J. Reeve