Bible Dictionary
SHROUD
A shroud is a cloth or covering used to wrap the dead. In some older English Bible passages, the related word may instead mean shelter, covering, or a forest-like shade.
Definition
A shroud is a winding-sheet or cloth used to cover the dead. In older English Bible usage, a related word may instead describe shelter, covering, or a forest-like shade.
Biblical Usage
The word’s burial sense concerns the winding-sheet of the dead. In older translations, the related term also appears in passages where later versions speak of shelter, covering, or forest-like shade.
Historical Bible Dictionaries
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>shroud (choresh, "bough"): Winding-sheet for the dead. See BURIAL. Used in the King James Version, the English Revised Version Eze 31:3 in the rare old sense of "shelter," "covering." the American Standard Revised Version has "a forest-like shade" choresh, "wood," "wooded height") (Isa 17:9, etc.). Compare Milton, Comus, 147.</p>