Bolster:
The Hebrew word kebir, rendered "pillow" in 1Sa 19:13, 16, but in Revised Version marg. "quilt" or "network," probably means some counterpane or veil intended to protect the head of the sleeper. A different Hebrew word (meraashoth') is used for "bolster" (1Sa 26:7,11,16). It is rightly rendered in Revised Version "at his head." In Gen 28:11, 18 the Authorized Version renders it "for his pillows," and the Revised Version "under his head." In Eze 13:18, 20 another Hebrew word (kesathoth) is used, properly denoting "cushions" or "pillows," as so rendered both in the Authorized and the Revised Version.
Bolster:
bol'-ster: Found in the King James Version only in 1Sa 19:13,16, "Behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goat's hair at the head thereof" (the King James Version "for his bolster"), and 1Sa 26:7,11,12,16, "Saul lay sleeping.... with his spear stuck in the ground at his head." "Bolster" in these passages in the King James Version was used to translate a Hebrew word whose true significance is "the place of the head," or "the head-place." It will be noted that it has disappeared from the Revised Version (British and American), which rightly has throughout "head," instead of "bolster."
See CUSHION
Bolster: Head-Rest; Pillow.
And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his BOLSTER. (1 Samuel 26:12)
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