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Beacon

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(signal). A lighted signal for warning (Isa. 30:17¹⁷One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill. (Isaiah 30:17)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

Signal pole placed on the top of a hill (Isa. 30:17¹⁷One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill. (Isaiah 30:17)). Israel should be so reduced in prosperity and in number as to become like a solitary “tree bereft of branches” (margin).