Battlement
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary == A balustrade around the roofs of ancient houses, which were flat, and were much, resorted to for fresh air, amusement, or retirement by day and for sleep at night. The Mosaic law required a battlement for each house, Deuteronomy 22:8 .
== Easton's Bible Dictionary == Deuteronomy 22:8Jeremiah 5:10 == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible == BATTLEMENT . See Fortification, House.
== King James Dictionary == BAT'TLEMENT, n. This is said to have been bastillement, from bastille, a fortification.
A wall raised on a building with openings or embrasures, or the
embrasure itself.
== People's Dictionary of the Bible == Battlement. Deuteronomy 22:8. See Dwelling.
== Smith's Bible Dictionary == Battlement. Among the Jews, a battlement was required, by law, to be built upon every house. It consisted of a low wall built around the roofs of the houses to prevent persons from falling off, and sometimes serving as a partition from another building. Deuteronomy 22:8; Jeremiah 5:10.
== Webster's Dictionary == (1):
(n.) One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.
(2):
(n.) pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.
== Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types == Deuteronomy 22:8 (c) The thought of the passage is that we are to seek to establish preventive measures or ample protection around the church, the people of GOD, and the testimony of our Lord. In this way there will not be a mingling of Christians with the unsaved and no mixture of the Christian program with the world's plans and schemes.
Jeremiah 5:10 (b) We understand from this that the world puts up barriers to prevent the Word of GOD from being preached to them, and to prevent the people of GOD from teaching the Word to them.
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia == bat ´'l -ment . See Fortification; House .
== Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature == Battlement [HOUSE]
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
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