HEADBAND.In 1Ki_20:38; 1Ki_20:41 RV [Note: Revised Version.] this is the correct rendering of the word tr. [Note: translate or translation.] ashes in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] . Beyond the fact that it covered the wearers forehead its form is unknown. A different word, tr. [Note: translate or translation.] headbands, Isa_3:20 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] , more probably represents sashes, as in RV [Note: Revised Version.] ; it is used again in Jer_2:32 for the sash or girdle (EV [Note: English Version.] attire) with which a bride girds herself (Isa_49:18 RV [Note: Revised Version.] , the cognate verb).
A. R. S. Kennedy.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
hed?band. See DRESS.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.