Bible Dictionary: Sculpture

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials.

2. (n.) Carved work modeled of, or cut upon, wood, stone, metal, etc.

3. (v. t.) To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave.

Greek

5480. charagma -- a stamp, impress
... a stamp, impress. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: charagma Phonetic
Spelling: (khar'-ag-mah) Short Definition: sculpture, a stamp, sign Definition ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6816. tsaatsuim -- things formed, images
... image work. From an unused root meaning to bestrew with carvings; sculpture -- image
(work). 6815, 6816. tsaatsuim. 6817 . Strong's Numbers.
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4734. miqlaath -- carving
... carved figure, carving, graving. From qala'; a sculpture (probably in bas-relief) --
carved (figure), carving, graving. see HEBREW qala'. 4733, 4734. ...
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6603. pittuach -- an engraving
... Or pittuach {pit-too'-akh; passive participle of pathach; sculpture (in low or high
relief or even intaglio) -- carved (work) (are, en-)grave(-ing, -n). ...
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Library

Under Ban of the Ritual
... In the years of his youth, side by side with the great Rameses, he had planned and
brought to perfection the mightiest monument to Egyptian sculpture, the rock ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter ii under ban of.htm

The Names of the Gods and their Images are but of Recent Date.
... functions, and described their forms." Representations of the gods, again, were
not in use at all, so long as statuary, and painting, and sculpture were unknown ...
/.../athenagoras/a plea for the christians/chapter xvii the names of the.htm

The Division Between East and West
... There had been from very early times an extensive though not universal feeling in
the Church, against the use of painting or sculpture in {96} Divine Worship. ...
/.../a key to the knowledge of church history/chapter ix the division between.htm

Travel. A Personal Experience.
... If you want to know the origin of the art of building, the art of painting, the
art of sculpture, as you find them to-day in contemporary America, you must ...
/.../ix travel a personal experience.htm

Early Christian Literature and Art.
... In "a list of the symbols most frequently represented in painting or sculpture by
the Church of the first seven centuries" Susanna is included (DCA art. ...
/.../the three additions to daniel a study/early christian literature and art 2.htm

The Era of Persecution
... were dead. The well-known piece of ancient sculpture known as the Farnese Bull
is the original tragedy pictured in stone. An inscription ...
/.../brittain/women of early christianity/iii the era of persecution.htm

The Margin of the Nile
... ban and in fear. Till what time Mizraim sets this law of sculpture aside she
may not boast her wisdom flawless. It is past understanding ...
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The Stage as it was Once.
... music and metre, which must have surely been as noble as their poetry, their sculpture,
their architecture, possessed by the same exquisite sense of form and ...
/.../kingsley/lectures delivered in america in 1874/lecture ii the stage as.htm

History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 7
... The empire after the wars of Assur-nazir-pal -- Building of the palace at Calah:
Assyrian architecture and sculpture in the IXth century -- The tunnel of Negub ...
/.../history of egypt chaldaea syria babylonia and assyria v 7/title page.htm

The Last Days of the Old Eastern World
... Persepolis, and Susa; Persian architecture and sculpture; court life, the king and
his harem"Revolutions in the palace"Xerxes I., Sekudianos, Darius II ...
/.../chapter iithe last days of.htm

Thesaurus

Sculpture (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (vt) To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve;
to engrave. Multi-Version Concordance Sculpture (1 Occurrence). ...
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Calah (2 Occurrences)
... while the sides of the right-hand entrance were decorated with slabs showing the
expulsion of the evil spirit from the temple-a spirited sculpture now in the ...
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Babylonia (17 Occurrences)
... 11. Art: The sculpture of the Sumerians, although in most instances the hardest
of materials was used, is one of the great achievements of their civilization. ...
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Assyria (124 Occurrences)
... be traced. Under Assur-nazir-pal the sculpture is bold and vigorous, but
the work is immature and the perspective faulty. From the ...
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Shinar (8 Occurrences)
... known Cities 10. Shinar and Its Climate 11. Sculpture in Shinar 12. The
First Nation to Use Writing in Western Asia 13. The System ...
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Knee (12 Occurrences)
... Thus also we have to understand the numerous representations in Egyptian sculpture,
showing the king as an infant on the knees or the lap of a goddess. ...
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Kneel (10 Occurrences)
... Thus also we have to understand the numerous representations in Egyptian sculpture,
showing the king as an infant on the knees or the lap of a goddess. ...
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Neck (97 Occurrences)
... This custom, frequently represented in sculpture on many an Egyptian temple wall,
is referred to in Joshua 10:24; Baruch 4:25 and probably in Romans 16:20 and ...
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Grave (128 Occurrences)
... substance; to engrave. 9. (n.) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with
a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image. 10. (n.) To ...
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Ground (538 Occurrences)
... Bowers on a white ground. 8. (n.) In sculpture, a flat surface upon which
figures are raised in relief. 9. (n.) In point lace, the ...
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Bible Concordance

Sculpture (1 Occurrence)

1 Kings 7:31 And the mouth of it within the crown and above was a cubit; and its mouth was rounded, as the work of the base, a cubit and a half; and also upon its mouth was sculpture; but their panels were square, not round.
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Subtopics

Sculpture

Related Terms

Calah (2 Occurrences)

Babylonia (17 Occurrences)

Assyria (124 Occurrences)

Shinar (8 Occurrences)

Knee (12 Occurrences)

Kneel (10 Occurrences)

Neck (97 Occurrences)

Grave (128 Occurrences)

Ground (538 Occurrences)