Ornamentation, personal adornments. Both Israelite men and women used, in addition to clothing, various things, such as hair clips, earrings, rings in the nose and ears, etc. It is said of † ¢ Jezebel that when she heard that † ¢ Jehu was coming to Jezreel, † “she painted her eyes with antimony, and adorned his head † (2Ki 9:30). Everything Esther asked for was given to her “to come adorned with it” to appear before King Ahasuerus (Esther 2:13). Give to. to the bride it is an expression of love and care (Eze 16:11-13). The † ¢ new Jerusalem appears as a bride adorned for her husband (Rev 21:2). Christian women must take care of their a., ensuring that it † œis not the external one of ostentatious hairstyles, gold ornaments or luxurious dresses, but the internal one, that of the heart…. For those holy women also adorned themselves…† , says the apostle Peter (1Pe 3:1-6).
Source: Christian Bible Dictionary