2 Kgs 1:8

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an hairy man.

That is, he wore a rough garment, either made of camels' hair, as that of John Baptist, or of a skin, dressed with the hair on. Sir J. Chardin informs us, in a MS. note on this place, cited by Mr. Harmer, that the eastern dervishes and fakeers are clothed just as Elijah was, with a hairy garment, girded with a leathern girdle.

Isa 20:2; Zech 13:4; Matt 3:4; Matt 11:8; Luke 1:17; Rev 11:3