Category:Sandals

Sandals: - a foot coverings usually made of a sole of leather or other material(s) held onto the foot by straps or thongs.

Mentioned only in Mark 1:7, Mark 6:9, and Acts 12:8. The sandal was simply a sole, made of wood or palm-bark, fastened to the foot by leathern straps. Sandals were also: made of seal-skin (Ezek. 16:10; lit. tahash, "leather;" A.V., "badger's skin;" R.V., "sealskin," or marg., "porpoise-skin"). --(Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary)

- Mark 1:7. He preached, saying, “There comes after me One mightier than I, the leather strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen.

- Mark 6:8-9. He commanded them that they should take nothing for the way, except a staff only; no traveling bag, no bread, nor money in their purse, 6:9. to be shod with sandals, and that they should not put on two coats

- Acts 12:8. The Angel said to him, “Gird yourself and put on your sandals.” Peter did so. The Angel said to him, “Wrap your mantle around yourself and follow me."

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---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Sandals - Mentioned only in Mark 6:9 and Acts 12:8. The sandal was simply a sole, made of wood or palm-bark, fastened to the foot by leather straps. Sandals were also made of seal-skin (Ezekiel 16:10; lit. tahash, "leather;" A.V., "badger's skin;" R.V., "sealskin," or marg., "porpoise-skin"). (See SHOE.)