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<p> (θυρίς) </p> <p> The Gr. word properly means ‘little door’ (from θύρα). Though glass was largely manufactured by the Phœnicians, who may have learned the art from the [[Egyptians]] (as is maintained in EBi ii. 1737, but see EBr 11 xii. 98), it was apparently never used by them or their [[Jewish]] neighbours for windows, which were mere apertures-or apertures fitted with lattice-work-in the walls of houses. The discoveries at [[Pompeii]] furnish convincing evidence that glass had begun to be used for windows in the early days of the Roman Empire. In the tepidarium of the public baths a bronze lattice has been found with some of the panes still in the frame. In the houses of the East, which still differ but little from those of ancient times, windows do not usually look out upon the street, but balconies project from the upper stories over the street, with windows in which the lattice-work is often of a highly ornamental kind. In the case of houses built upon the city wall, the window has always afforded a ready means of escape into the country (&nbsp;Joshua 2:15, &nbsp;2 [[Maccabees]] 3:19, &nbsp;2 Corinthians 11:33). Baskets are often seen being lowered from such windows to-day, most likely for the purpose of being filled with fruit (W. M. Thomson, The Land and the Book, London, 1910, p. 78). While St. Paul was preaching in the upper room of a house at Troas, [[Eutychus]] sat on the window-sill (ἐπὶ τῆς θυρίδος), and, falling asleep and losing his balance, fell down from the third story (ἀπὸ τοῦ τριστέγου) (&nbsp;Acts 20:9). In a crowded room lighted with lamps the windows would naturally be wide open. </p> <p> Literature.-W. Ramsay, art. ‘Vitrum’ in Smith’s DGRA 2, London, 1875; G. M. Mackie, Bible [[Manners]] and Customs, do., 1898, p. 95 f; C. Warren, art. ‘House’ in HDB . </p> <p> J. Strahan. </p>

<p> [[Window]] n. G. The vulgar pronunciation is windor, as if from the [[Welsh]] gwyntdor, wind-door. </p> 1. An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light, and of air when necessary. This opening has a frame on the sides, in which are set movable sashes, containing panes of glass. In the United Sates, the sashes are made to rise and fall, for the admission or exclusion of air. In France, windows are shut with frames or sashes that open and shut vertically, like the leaves of a folding door. 2. An aperture or opening. <p> A window shalt thou make to the ark. &nbsp;Genesis 6 . </p> 3. The frame or other thing that covers the aperture. <p> [[Ere]] I let fall the windows of mine eyes. </p> 4. An aperture or rather the clouds or water-spouts. <p> The windows of heaven were opened. &nbsp;Genesis 7 . </p> 5. [[Lattice]] or casement or the network of wire used before the invention of glass. &nbsp;Judges 5 . 6. [[Lines]] crossing each other. <p> Till he has windows on his bread and butter. </p> <p> WINDOW, </p> 1. To furnish with windows. 2. To place at a window. Unusual. 3. To break into openings. Unusual.

<p> There are several [[Hebrew]] words so translated. [[Windows]] were openings to admit light and for ventilation; not glazed, but furnished with latticed work, through which persons could, though themselves unobserved, see what was passing outside. Some had shutters attached. There was a window in the ark Noah built, and windows in the temple; and many are to be made in the temple described by Ezekiel. &nbsp;Genesis 6:16; &nbsp;Genesis 8:6; &nbsp;1 Kings 7:4,5; &nbsp;Ezekiel 40:16-36 . </p> <p> In the East windows were usually made to open horizontally, which explains how a person sitting in a window could fall out. &nbsp;Acts 20:9 . The passage in &nbsp;Isaiah 54:12 , "I will make thy windows of agates' is better translated, "I will make thy battlements, or pinnacles, of rubies." At the flood the expression the 'windows of heaven' is in the sense of the 'floodgates,' as in the margin. &nbsp;Genesis 7:11 . </p>

<p> '''Window.''' The window of an Oriental house consists generally of an aperture closed in with lattice-work. &nbsp;Judges 5:28; &nbsp;Proverbs 7:6. Authorized Version, "casement;" &nbsp;Ecclesiastes 12:3, Authorized Version, "window;" &nbsp;Song of [[Solomon]] 2:9; &nbsp;Hosea 13:3, Authorized Version, "chimney." </p> <p> Glass has been introduced into Egypt, in modern times, as a protection against the cold of winter, but lattice-work is still the usual, and with the poor, the only, contrivance for closing the window. The windows generally look into the inner court of the house, but in every house, one or more look into the street. In Egypt, these outer windows generally project over the doorway. ''See '' [[House]] ''.'' </p>

<p> &nbsp;Isaiah 24:18 (b) GOD uses this figure to describe the pouring out of the wrath of GOD from [[Heaven]] as though one were shooting arrows or throwing stones from the apertures of a fort. </p> <p> &nbsp;Malachi 3:10 (b) This type probably is based on the fact that the windows, or upper doors of the buildings, were often open to throw out feed for the animals. I have a photograph of a flock of sheep in a barnyard looking up at a closed window in a large barn, from which presently the farmer will throw out their feed. In like manner, GOD, in a spiritual way, opens up the windows of Heaven to pour out great blessings and good things for His people. He expects us to be waiting under those windows, with large baskets, to receive the rich things which He will throw out. This is the truth represented in the above Scripture. </p>

<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To furnish with windows. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' n.) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' n.) A figure formed of lines crossing each other. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To place at or in a window. </p>

&nbsp;Hosea 13:3&nbsp;Isaiah 60:8&nbsp;Genesis 7:11&nbsp;Genesis 8:2&nbsp;Malachi 3:10&nbsp;2 Kings 7:2&nbsp;Genesis 8:6&nbsp;Joshua 2:15&nbsp;Judges 5:28&nbsp; 1 Kings 6:4&nbsp;2 Kings 9:30&nbsp;1 Kings 7:4House

<p> (See [[House]] .) '''''Chalon''''' , "aperture" with lattice work; this being opened, nothing prevented one from falling through the aperture to the ground (&nbsp;2 Kings 1:2; &nbsp;Acts 20:9). [[Houses]] abutting on a town wall often had projecting windows looking into the country. From them the spies at [[Jericho]] were let down, and Paul at [[Damascus]] (&nbsp;Joshua 2:15; &nbsp;2 Corinthians 11:33). </p>

&nbsp;2 Kings 1:2&nbsp;Acts 20:9&nbsp;Joshua 2:15&nbsp;2&nbsp;11:33&nbsp;Genesis 7:11&nbsp;Malachi 3:10&nbsp;Isaiah 54:12

&nbsp;Acts 20:9&nbsp;2—Corinthians 11:33