CROWN
(1.) Denotes the plate of gold in the front of the high priest's mitre (Exo 29:6;39:30). The same Hebrew word so rendered (ne'zer) denotes the diadem worn by Saul in battle (2-Sam 1:10), and also that which was used at the coronation of Joash (2-Kings 11:12). (2.) The more general name in Hebrew for a crown is _'atarah_, meaning a "circlet." This is used of crowns and head ornaments of divers ki......
CROWN OF THORNS
our Lord was crowned with a, in mockery by the Romans (Matt. 27:29). The object of Pilate's guard in doing this was probably to insult, and not specially to inflict pain. There is nothing to show that the shrub thus used was, as has been supposed, the spina Christi, which could have been easily woven into a wreath. It was probably the thorny nabk, which grew abundantly round about Jerusalem, and w......