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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_99343" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_99343" /> == | ||
<p> '''(1):''' (n.) | <p> '''(1):''' (n.) A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column. </p> <p> '''(2):''' (n.) That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels. </p> <p> '''(3):''' (n.) A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel. </p> <p> '''(4):''' (v. t.) To course through or over, as in a channel. </p> <p> '''(5):''' (n.) The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run. </p> <p> '''(6):''' (v. t.) To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove. </p> <p> '''(7):''' (n.) [[Flat]] ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks. </p> <p> '''(8):''' (n.) The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels. </p> | ||
== King James Dictionary <ref name="term_58832" /> == | == King James Dictionary <ref name="term_58832" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> CHANNEL, n. </p> 1. In a general sense, a passage a place of passing or flowing particularly, a water course. 2. The place where a river flows, including the whole breadth of the river. But more appropriately, the deeper part or hollow in which the principal current flows. 3. The deeper part of a strait, bay, or harbor, where the principal current flows, either of tide or fresh water, or which is the most convenient for the track of a ship. 4. That through which any thing passes means of passing, conveying, or transmitting as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels. 5. A gutter or furrow in a column. 6. An arm of the sea a straight or narrow sea, between two continents, or between a continent and an isle as the British or Irish channel. 7. Channels of a ship. See Chain-wales. <p> CHANNEL, To form a channel to cut channels in to groove as, to channel a field or a column. </p> | ||
== Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_30900" /> == | == Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_30900" /> == | ||
<li> The "chanelbone" ( Job 31:22 marg.), properly "tube" or "shaft," an old term for the collar-bone. <div> <p> '''Copyright Statement''' These dictionary topics are from | <li> The "chanelbone" ( Job 31:22 marg.), properly "tube" or "shaft," an old term for the collar-bone. <div> <p> '''Copyright Statement''' These dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by [[Thomas]] Nelson, 1897. Public Domain. </p> <p> '''Bibliography Information''' Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Channel'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/c/channel.html. 1897. </p> </div> </li> | ||
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_2274" /> == | == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_2274" /> == | ||
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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_31515" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_31515" /> == | ||
<p> the rendering in the Auth. Vers. in certain passages of two Hebrews words: </p> <p> אָפַיק '', | <p> the rendering in the Auth. Vers. in certain passages of two Hebrews words: </p> <p> אָפַיק '', Aphik´,'' the [[Bed]] of a brook ( 2 Samuel 22:16; Psalms 18:15; Isaiah 8:7; elsewhere "stream," "river," etc.); and שַׁבֹּלֶת, ''Shibbo´ Leth,'' a stream ( Isaiah 27:12; "flood," Psalms 69:2; Psalms 69:15). </p> | ||
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