Bible dictionaries
Plaiting
What Bible dictionaries say about “Plaiting”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Plaiting - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
PLA'ITING, ppr. Folding; doubling; braiding.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
plat'-ing, plat'-ing (from the Old French, pleit, which is from the Latin plicatum, "fold"): An interweaving, a braiding, a knot; an elaborate gathering of the hair into knots; emploke, "outward adorning of plaiting the hair" (1Pe 3:3). Compare "platted" (crown of thorns) (Mt 27:29 parallel Mr 15:17; Joh 19:2).
See BRAIDED, BRAIDING.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915