Bible Concordance
Battlement (2 Occurrences)Deuteronomy 22:8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man fall from there.
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Song of Songs 8:9 If she is a wall, we will make on her a strong base of silver; and if she is a door, we will let her be shut up with cedar-wood.
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Thesaurus
Battlement (2 Occurrences)... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia.
BATTLEMENT. bat'-'-l-ment. See FORTIFICATION;
HOUSE. Multi-Version Concordance
Battlement (2 Occurrences).
.../b/battlement.htm - 8kArchitecture
... of a distinctive kind, not even an eave, simply a "coping." The use of a coping
suggests that the walls were topped by parapets, "battlement" (Deuteronomy 22:8 ...
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Parapet (3 Occurrences)
... Deuteronomy 22:8 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement
for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from ...
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Battlements (5 Occurrences)
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Buildest (7 Occurrences)
... Deuteronomy 22:8 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement
for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall ...
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Battlefield (2 Occurrences)
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Roof (55 Occurrences)
... Deuteronomy 22:8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for
your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man fall from ...
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Homicide (1 Occurrence)
... If a man failed to build a battlement to his house, and anyone fell over and was
killed, blood-guiltiness came upon that man's house (Dr 22:8). He who killed a ...
/h/homicide.htm - 10k
Thence (152 Occurrences)
... Deuteronomy 22:8 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement
for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall ...
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Build (242 Occurrences)
... Deuteronomy 22:8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for
your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man fall from ...
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
A parapet wall or balustrade surrounding the flat roofs of the houses, required to be built by a special law (
Deuteronomy 22:8). In
Jeremiah 5:10, it denotes the parapet of a city wall.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.
2. (n.) pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
BATTLEMENTbat'-'-l-ment.
See FORTIFICATION; HOUSE.
Greek
4419. pterugion -- a little wing, hence (anything like a wing) a ... ... a little wing, hence (anything like a wing) a
battlement. Part of Speech: Noun,
Neuter Transliteration: pterugion Phonetic Spelling: (pter-oog'-ee-on) Short
... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4419.htm - 6kStrong's Hebrew
2918. tirah -- encampment, battlement... 2917, 2918. tirah. 2919 . encampment,
battlement. Transliteration: tirah
Phonetic Spelling: (tee-raw') Short Definition: camps.
... /hebrew/2918.htm - 6k 5189. netishah -- a twig, tendril
... battlement, branch, plant. From natash; a tendril (as an offshoot) -- battlement,
branch, plant. see HEBREW natash. 5188, 5189. netishah. 5190 . ...
/hebrew/5189.htm - 6k
4624. maaqeh -- a parapet
... parapet (1). battlement. From an unused root meaning to repress; a parapet --
battlement. 4623, 4624. maaqeh. 4625 . Strong's Numbers.
/hebrew/4624.htm - 5k
8121. shemesh -- sun
... From an unused root meaning to be brilliant; the sun; by implication, the east;
figuratively, a ray, ie (arch.) A notched battlement -- + east side(-ward), sun ...
/hebrew/8121.htm - 6k
Library
Storming the Battlements
... She shall not have them. I am her battlement. ... 4. But I think that the worst battlement
the churches have now, is an earthwork of great and extreme caution. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 1 1855/storming the battlements.htm
From the Two Books on the Promises.
... Accordingly, when they had brought this book before us, as though it were a kind
of weapon or impregnable battlement, I sat with them for three days in ...
/.../dionysius/the works of dionysius/i from the two books on.htm
The Pinnacle of the Temple.
... as if to try whether he will work a miracle to save thee from a peril that might
be avoided by natural means" (ie, by coming down from the battlement in the ...
/.../section 44 the pinnacle of.htm
Our Stronghold
... of the law of God and of the justice of his character, we soon discover that
self-righteousness is no hiding-place for us, a crumbling battlement which will ...
//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/sermons on proverbs/our stronghold.htm
The Temptation of Christ
... And not only so, but "he setteth him on a pinnacle," a battlement or wing, "of the
temple," the top of which was so very high, that, as Josephus observes, it ...
/.../whitefield/selected sermons of george whitefield/the temptation of christ.htm
Israel the Beloved
... Here is one of their triumphant utterances: 'Thou wilt bless the righteous; with
favour wilt Thou compass him as with a shield.' That crystal battlement, if I ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/israel the beloved.htm
Deuteronomy
... The law providing for the battlement on the roof of a new house, xxii.8, shows that
the book contemplates the later settled life of cities or villages, not the ...
/.../mcfadyen/introduction to the old testament/deuteronomy.htm
The Polity Settled by Moses; and How He Disappeared from among ...
... Let there be a battlement round the tops of your houses instead of a wall, that
may prevent any persons from rolling down and perishing. 38. ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 8 the polity settled.htm
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Battlements (5 Occurrences)
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Thence (152 Occurrences)
Build (242 Occurrences)
Guilt (180 Occurrences)
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