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# headband

«headband» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a band of cloth, plastic or elastic worn around the head…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a headband, headbands)

### meaning for a pupil

A headband is a band of cloth, plastic or elastic worn around the head or over the hair to keep hair or sweat away from the face, or for decoration. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/headband/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A cloth band the prophet wore over his eyes to disguise himself before the king. Interpretation: Tradition notes that the prophet disguised himself to give King Ahab a message in a parable form, so that Ahab would judge himself. In the primary lessons: In everyday life, children wear headbands to hold hair back, in sports to soak up sweat, and in dress-up (bunny ears, crowns). In crafts, pupils make paper headbands with feathers, animal ears or crowns. Phrases: wear a headband, sweatband, a headband with ears.

### examples

- So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes. (Prophets 1KI.20.38, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/headband/#x1)
- And he hastened, and took the headband away from his eyes; and the king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets. (Prophets 1KI.20.41, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/headband/#x2)
- She pushed her hair back with a blue headband. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/headband/#x3)
- The tennis player wore a headband to stop sweat getting in his eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/headband/#x4)
- We made paper headbands with rabbit ears for the play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/headband/#x5)
- My headband has a little bow on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/headband/#x6)
- Grandma knitted me a warm headband for winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/headband/#x7)
- The runners all wore matching headbands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/headband/#x8)

### note

One word, countable: headbands. A headband that goes around the forehead for sport is also called a «sweatband». An «Alice band» (UK) is a stiff headband over the top of the head.

### In the corpora

- [So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.766/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «headband» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/headband/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.