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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(board). Primitive tables were merely
leather
or skins spread on the floor. After the
captivity
they were slightly raised. Beds or
couches
are meant (
Mark 7:4
4
And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brazen vessels, and of tables. (Mark 7:4)
);
writing
tablet of wax (
Luke 1:63
63
And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying, His name is John. And they marvelled all. (Luke 1:63)
). The “tables” (
Matt. 21:12
12
And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, (Matthew 21:12)
;
John 2:15
15
And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; (John 2:15)
), were doubtless sufficiently raised to answer the purposes of a counter for
money
-changing purposes. The meaning of “serve tables” (
Acts 6:2
2
Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. (Acts 6:2)
), is that duty which fell to the early
Christian
ministry of attending to the gathering and distributing of food to the
poor
, or of collecting and distributing the
church
funds. This duty was transferred to the deacons (
Acts 6:5-6
5
And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:
6
Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them. (Acts 6:5‑6)
).
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
In a few places this term refers to a tablet which could be written on, (
Hab. 2:2
2
And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. (Habakkuk 2:2)
;
Luke 1:63
63
And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying, His name is John. And they marvelled all. (Luke 1:63)
;
2 Cor. 3:3
3
Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. (2 Corinthians 3:3)
). In
Mark 7:4
4
And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brazen vessels, and of tables. (Mark 7:4)
the word
translated “table” is
κλίνη
, “a couch,” often translated “
bed
” in the AV.
From
Manners and Customs of the Bible
:
Psalm 69:22
22
Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. (Psalm 69:22)
. Let their
table
become a
snare
before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
The table of the modern Arabs is usually nothing but a piece of skin or
leather
, a mat, or a
linen
cloth
spread upon the ground. The ancient Hebrews are supposed to have used a table of this sort, and this is thought to be referred to in the text. A table thus spread on the ground might easily become a trap by which the feet of the unwary would be entangled so that they should fall. For a description of the “snare” and “trap” referred to here,
sea
note on
Psalm 91:3
3
Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. (Psalm 91:3)
(#445).
Related Books and Articles:
442. Leather Tables
From:
Manners and Customs of the Bible
By:
James M. Freeman
Call: 1-630-543-1441
“Study to show thyself approved unto God, … rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15).
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