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What does ephod mean?

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Noun
  1. (biblical, Judaism) A priestly apron, or breastplate, described in the Bible in Exodus 28: vi - xxx, which only the chief priest of ancient Israel was allowed to wear.
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Here he received news of the massacre of the priests, and was joined by Abiathar, bearing the ephod of the high-priest.
The name given to the sockets for fastening the stones in the ephod.
Are we going back to the days of the Judges, when wealthy Micah set up his private ephod, teraphim, and Levite?
Bock does not give his authority for the pattern on the ephod.
It was not a garment in the ordinary sense, and its association with the sacred lots indicates that the ephod was used for divination.
Worn over the ephod, the breastplate was slung from the shoulders of the wearer by golden attachments.

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