BABYLONISH GARMENT (addereth Shinâr).Stolen by Achan (Jos_7:21); literally mantle of Shinar; probably a cloak of embroidered stuff. Babylonia was famous in classical times for such costly garments, and the sculptures exhibit the most elaborately embroidered dresses. The Babylonian inscriptions enumerate an almost endless variety of such garments, worked in many colours.
C. H. W. Johns.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Babylonish Garment. Literally "robe of Shinar", Jos_7:21 an ample robe, probably made of the skin or fur of an animal, compare Gen_25:25, and ornamented with embroidery or perhaps a variegated garment with figures inwoven in the fashion for which the Babylonians were celebrated.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
bab-i-lō?nish gar?ment: In the King James Version, Jos_7:21, for BABYLONISH MANTLE.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Babylonish Garment
(אִדֶּרֶת שַׁנְעָד, adde'reth Shinar'; Sept. ψιλὴ ποικίλη, Vulg. pallium coccineum), a Babylonish mantle, SEE ATTIRE, i.e. a large rote variegated with the figures of men and animals interwoven in rich colors (comp. Pliny, Hist.Nat. 8:48), such as were fabricated at Babylon (q.v.); hence a valuable piece of clothing in general (Jos_7:21). SEE EMBROIDERY.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.