Bench

== Easton's Bible Dictionary == Ezekiel 27:6 == Webster's Dictionary ==

(1):

(n.) The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion of the full bench. See King's Bench.

(2):

(n.) A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; - so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms.

(3):

(n.) A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river.

(4):

(n.) The seat where judges sit in court.

(5):

(n.) A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench.

(6):

(v. t.) To furnish with benches.

(7):

(n.) A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length.

(8):

(v. t.) To place on a bench or seat of honor.

(9):

(v. i.) To sit on a seat of justice.

== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ==

(קרשׁ , ḳeresh ): Found only in English Versions of the Bible in Ezekiel 27:6 , in the prophet's "lamentation over Tyre": "They have made thy benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood, from the isles of Kittim," where the word evidently stands for the "benches" of the boat whose "mast" (Ezekiel 27:5 ) and "oars" (Ezekiel 27:6 ) have just been described, in the vivid figs. of speech in which the city itself is pictured as a merchantship. Compare Ezekiel 27:8 , "Thy wise men, O T yre, were in thee, they were thy pilots." See Seat .

== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature ==

(קֶרֶשׁ, ke'resh), a plank (usually rendered "board"), once the deck of a Tyrian ship, represented (Ezekiel 27:6) as inlaid with box-wood. (See Ashurite).