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Smith's Bible Dictionary

Pavement

[GABBATHA]

ATS Bible Dictionary

Pavement

See GABBATHA.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

It was the custom of the Roman governors to erect their tribunals in open places, as the Market-place, the circus, or even the highway. Pilate caused his seat of judgment to be set down in a place called "the Pavement" (John 19:13) i.e., a place paved with a mosaic of coloured stones. It was probably a place thus prepared in front of the "judgment hall." (see GABBATHA.)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) That with which anything is paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks.

2. (v. t.) To furnish with a pavement; to pave.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

PAVEMENT

pav'-ment: In the Old Testament, with the exception of 2 Kings 16:17, the Hebrew word is ritspah (2 Chronicles 7:3 Esther 1:6 Ezekiel 40:17, etc.); in Sirach 20:18 and Bel and the Dragon verse 19 the word is edaphos; in John 19:13, the name "The Pavement" (lithostrotos, "paved with stone") is given to the place outside the Pretorium on which Pilate sat to give judgment upon Jesus. Its Hebrew (Aramaic) equivalent is declared to be GABBATHA (which see). The identification of the place is uncertain.

Greek

3038. lithostrotos -- stone pavement, mosaic
... stone pavement, mosaic. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: lithostrotos
Phonetic Spelling: (lith-os'-tro-tos) Short Definition: a mosaic pavement ...
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1042. Gabbatha -- stone pavement
... stone pavement. Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable Transliteration: Gabbatha
Phonetic Spelling: (gab-bath-ah') Short Definition: Gabbatha Definition ...
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Strong's Hebrew

4837. martsepheth -- pavement
... 4836, 4837. martsepheth. 4838 . pavement. Transliteration: martsepheth Phonetic
Spelling: (mar-tseh'-feth) Short Definition: pavement. ...
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7531b. ritsephah -- pavement
... pavement. Transliteration: ritsephah Short Definition: pavement. Word Origin from
ratsaph Definition pavement NASB Word Usage mosaic pavement (1), pavement (6). ...
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7531. ritspah -- a glowing stone
... live coal, pavement Feminine of retseph; a hot stone; also a tessellated pavement --
live coal, pavement. see HEBREW retseph. 7530, 7531. ritspah. 7531a . ...
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3843. lebenah -- brick, tile
... bricks. Word Origin from laben Definition brick, tile NASB Word Usage brick
(2), bricks (7), pavement (1). altar of brick, tile. From ...
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7172. qarqa -- floor
... bottom, one side of the floor. From qara'; floor (as if a pavement of pieces or
tesseroe), of a building or the sea -- bottom, (X one side of the) floor. ...
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Library

Daleth.
... St. Augustin on the Psalms. Daleth. 25. "My soul cleaveth to the pavement:
O quicken Thou me according to Thy word" (ver.25). What ...
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The King of Heaven at the Bar of Pilate.
... was "The Hall of Judgment," where cases were brought to the Governor to be judged,
and just outside this Hall was a place called "The Pavement." It was a broad ...
/.../lathbury/childs story of the bible/chapter xlii the king of.htm

In his Father's House.
... of sheep, and oxen, and doves, and the money-changers had brought their things into
the great court inside the marble pillars, and on the pavement of many ...
/.../lathbury/childs story of the bible/chapter x in his fathers.htm

The Hard Life
... The first of these is the hard life,"hard, like a road, so that the seed lies there
as if fallen on a pavement, and gets no root, and the pigeons come and ...
/.../peabody/mornings in the college chapel/xlvi the hard life.htm

How his Body was Found Altogether Uncorrupted after it had Been ...
... to dust, after the manner of the dead, and they desired to put them into a new coffin,
and to lay them in the same place, but above the pavement, for the ...
/.../bede/bedes ecclesiastical history of england/chap xxx how his body.htm

The Concourse of Atoms could not Make the World.
... And further, I ask this: What is the pavement on which the foundations
of such an immense mass are laid? And again, what you call ...
/.../unknown/recognitions of clement /chapter xviii the concourse of atoms.htm

Since the Life-Giving Cross Has Shewn to us Salvation...
... Therefore those who from this present represent on the pavement the sign of the
cross, we decree are to be cut off. Notes. Ancient Epitome of Canon LXXIII. ...
/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/canon lxxiii since the life-giving.htm

The Fidelity of the Senses, Impugned by Plato, vindicated by ...
... On the same principle our touch is censured, when the identical pavement which seemed
rough to the hands is felt by the feet to be smooth enough; and in the ...
/.../tertullian/a treatise on the soul/chapter xvii the fidelity of the.htm

An Advance Step in the Royal Programme
... When the seventy elders of Israel see God, all that they can remember is the
dazzle of glory in the wonderful pavement under His feet. ...
/.../quiet talks on the crowned christ of revelation/v an advance step in the.htm

A Further Thanksgiving to God for the Change in the Late ...
... a certain person, who was among those under trial within, sat at the very vestibule
of the court of justice, rolling themselves on the pavement, and becoming a ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/homily xiii a further thanksgiving.htm

Thesaurus

Pavement (9 Occurrences)
... Pilate caused his seat of judgment to be set down in a place called "the Pavement"
(John 19:13) ie, a place paved with a mosaic of coloured stones. ...PAVEMENT. ...
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Gabbatha (1 Occurrence)
... This "temple-mound" was covered with a tesselated "pavement" (Gr.
lithostroton, ie, "stone-paved"). A judgement-seat (bema) was ...
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Marble (5 Occurrences)
... mar'-b'-l (shayish, shesh, 'abhne shayish, "stones of marble" (1 Chronicles 29:2);
ritspath bahat wa-shesh we-dhar we-cochareth, "a pavement of red, and white ...
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Outward (17 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 40:17 Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were chambers,
and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers were upon ...
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Gateways (6 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). Ezekiel 40:18 and the pavement unto the side of the gates over-against
the length of the gates 'is' the lower pavement; (See NIV). ...
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Fronted (1 Occurrence)
... Ezekiel 40:17 Then brought he me into the outer court; and behold, there were chambers
and a pavement, made for the court all around: thirty chambers were on ...
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Corresponding (17 Occurrences)
... (See NAS). Ezekiel 40:18 And the pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable
unto the length of the gates, even the lower pavement. (See JPS NAS RSV). ...
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Constructed (7 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 40:17 Then brought he me into the outer court; and behold, there were chambers
and a pavement, made for the court all around: thirty chambers were on ...
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Cells (24 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 40:17 And he brought me into the outer court, and behold, there were cells,
and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty cells were upon the ...
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Answerable (7 Occurrences)
... (KJV JPS ASV WBS). Ezekiel 40:18 The pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable
to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement. (WEB ASV). ...
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Bible Concordance

Pavement (9 Occurrences)

John 19:13 When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called "The Pavement," but in Hebrew, "Gabbatha."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 24:10 and they saw the God of Israel; and there was under His feet the like of a paved work of sapphire stone, and the like of the very heaven for clearness.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 16:17 King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

2 Chronicles 7:3 All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and the glory of Yahweh was on the house; and they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, and worshiped, and gave thanks to Yahweh, saying, For he is good; for his loving kindness endures for ever.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Esther 1:6 There were hangings of white, green, and blue material, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and marble pillars. The couches were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red, white, yellow, and black marble.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 43:9 Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in mortar in the brick work, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;
(See RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 40:17 Then brought he me into the outer court; and behold, there were chambers and a pavement, made for the court all around: thirty chambers were on the pavement.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 40:18 The pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 42:3 Over against the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Pavement

Related Terms

Gabbatha (1 Occurrence)

Marble (5 Occurrences)

Outward (17 Occurrences)

Gateways (6 Occurrences)

Fronted (1 Occurrence)

Corresponding (17 Occurrences)

Constructed (7 Occurrences)

Cells (24 Occurrences)

Answerable (7 Occurrences)