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HusbandEASTON'S
I.e., the “house-band,” connecting and keeping together the whole family. A man when betrothed was esteemed from that time a husband (Matt. 1:16, 20; Luke 2:5). A recently married man was exempt from going to war for “one year” (Deut. 20:7; 24:5).
Easton's Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 3rd ed. (1897), public domain.