LACE.The Eng. word lace comes from Lat. laqueus, a snare, and is used in that sense in Old Eng. It is then employed for any cord or hand, and that is its meaning in Exo_28:28; Exo_28:37; Exo_39:2 f., Exo_39:31, Sir_6:30.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
lās (פּתיל, pāthı̄l, variously rendered in Gen_38:18, Gen_38:25; Exo_39:3; Num_15:38; Num_19:15; Jdg_16:9; Eze_40:3): In modern English the noun ?lace? usually denotes a delicate ornamental fabric, but in the word in the sense of ?that which binds? is still in perfectly good use, especially in such combinations as ?shoelace? etc. It is this latter significance that is found in Exo_28:28 (?They shall bind ... with a lace of blue?); Exo_28:37; Exo_39:21, Exo_39:31, and in Sirach 6:30 the King James Version, κλῶσμα, klṓsma (the Revised Version (British and American) ?riband?).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Lace
(פָּתַיל, peathil', from being twisted), the blue cord with which the high- priest's breastplate was attached to the ephod (Exo_28:28; Exo_28:37; Exo_39:21; Exo_39:31; rendered "riband" Num_15:38); spoken of gold ' wire" (Exo_39:3), the chain for attaching a cover to its vessel (" bound," Num_19:15); a strong "thread" of tow (Jdg_16:9), or measuring-" lisne" of flax (Eze_40:3); also of the string by which the signet-ring was suspended in the bosom (" bracelet," Gen_38:18); finally (κλῶσμα, a spun thread, like pathil above, for which it stands in Num_15:36), a cord (Sir_6:30).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.