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—Biblical Data: Nowadays applied to the membrane surrounding the human fetus; used also in other senses. In the Bible: 1. A rendering of the Hebrew 2. Used in an anatomical sense of the enclosure of the heart, perhaps of the pericardium (Hosea xiii. 8). 3. Most frequently, however, it is used to translate “yoteret,” a … Read more