Bonnet

Bonnet is the King James Version rendering of two Hebrew words designating head-coverings worn by priests and, in a different form, by ordinary Israelites. The priestly bonnet (migba'ah) was a linen turban worn by the ordinary priests (Ex. 39:28; Ezek. 44:18), distinct from the high priest's mitre (mitsnepheth). Both were part of the elaborate garments prescribed for Aaron and his sons “for glory and for beauty” (Ex. 28:40). The Revised Version consistently renders the priestly headgear as “head-tires” or “turbans.”

The word peer, also rendered bonnet in Isaiah 3:20, refers to an ornamental headdress worn by women and figures in Isaiah's catalog of luxury ornaments that will be stripped away in judgment. The same root appears in Isaiah 61:3 and 10, where a “beautiful headdress” replaces ashes as a symbol of divine restoration. The range of usage—from priestly vestments to feminine adornment to the garlands of the redeemed—illustrates the symbolic weight carried by head-coverings in the biblical world.