A cloth draped, wrapped, or wound around the head to give protection or distinctive appearance. The turban functioned as a priestly garment (Exod 28:4,; Exod 28:37, Exod 28:39; Exod 29:6; Exod 39:28, Exod 39:31; Lev 8:9; Lev 16:4) for Aaron and carried the golden plaque inscribed “Holy to the Lord” (Exod 28:36-37). Job saw his justice as being “like a robe and a turban” (Job 29:14), but Isaiah’s indictment of Jerusalem’s women included removal of their turbans (Isa 3:23). Ezekiel saw the humiliation of Judah in similar terms (defiant Jerusalem doting on Babylonians with flowing turbans, Ezek 23:15) or in the bypassing of normal mourning by the wearing of the turbans as usual (Ezek 24:17, Ezek 24:23). In his vision of the Temple, turbans were part of levitical garb (Ezek 44:18). Zechariah’s vision saw the priestly Joshua fitted with a clean turban in preparation for high-priestly duty (Zech 3:5).
