A WING — that is the plain sense, and the corner or hem of a garment only by extension, the part that hangs loose like a wing. ⭐ The plural kanfot stands in five verses of the Hebrew Bible, and Deuteronomy 22:12 is the only one where it belongs to a garment. The other four are the ends of the world: the four corners of the earth at Isaiah 11:12 and Ezekiel 7:2, counted exactly as this verse counts, and the unnumbered kanfot ha-arets that lightning reaches in Job 37:3 and the dawn is told to seize in Job 38:13. So a man is told to fasten cords to the four corners of the cloth he wraps himself in, in the phrase the Bible otherwise saves for the four corners of everything. ⚠ Isaiah 11:12 carries a second word from the same chapter: it gathers nidchei Yisrael, the DRIVEN-OUT of Israel, from those four corners — and 'driven' is the participle Deuteronomy 22:1 uses of a stray ox. ⚠ The singular has a second life the plural does not: to spread your kanaf over a woman is to claim her in marriage (Ruth 3:9), and cutting the kanaf off a robe is how David proves he spared Saul (1 Samuel 24). ⭐ And to uncover a father's kanaf is to undo his marriage: Deuteronomy 23:1, a man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt, one chapter after the corners of 22:12. The phrase kenaf aviv stands in two verses of the Hebrew Bible, that one and the curse at Deuteronomy 27:20 (now on these pages), for he has uncovered his father’s skirt. The modern shelf translates the garment away — 'dishonor his father's bed' (NIV), «profanará el lecho de su padre» (RV60) — where the KJV, ASV and NWT 1984 still print a skirt. → first discussed at Deut 22:12