Bible Dictionary
Tires
Tires were ornamental head coverings or turbans. In some passages the word refers to crescent-shaped ornaments or other jewelry worn as adornment.
Definition
Tires are ornamental head coverings or personal ornaments. The word can describe a turban or headtire and, in other passages, crescent-shaped jewelry.
Biblical Usage
The term is used for adorning the head and for ornaments described in the Revised Version as crescents.
Historical Background
The noun is derived from “tiara.” The Hebrew terms include one for a head ornament and another for round or crescent ornaments.
Scripture References
Historical Bible Dictionaries
Easton's Bible Dictionary
“To tire” the head is to adorn it (2 Kings 9:30). As a noun the word is derived from “tiara,” and is the rendering of the Heb. p’er, a “turban” or an ornament for the head (Ezek. 24:17; R.V., “headtire;” 24:23). In Isa. 3:18 the word saharonim is rendered “round tires like the moon,” and in Judg. 8:21, 26 “ornaments,” but in both cases “crescents” in the Revised Version.