Vestry
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) A body, composed of wardens and vestrymen, chosen annually by a parish to manage its temporal concerns.
(2): ( n.) A parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; - so called because usually held in a vestry.
(3): ( n.) A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal vestments and sacred utensils are sometimes kept, and where meetings for worship or parish business are held; a sacristy; - formerly called revestiary.
King James Dictionary [2]
VEST'RY, n. L. vestiarium.
1. A room appendant to a church, in which the sacerdotal vestments, in which the sacerdotal vestments and sacred utensils are kept, and where parochial meetings are held. 2. A parochial assembly, so called because held in the vestry.
The council are chosen by the vestry.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [3]
Vestry occurs only in 2 Kings 10:22 ‘him that was over the vestry,’ as the rendering of a word of uncertain meaning. Cf. 2 Kings 22:14 ‘keeper of the wardrobe.’
Morrish Bible Dictionary [4]
Wardrobe. 2 Kings 10:22 .
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [5]
(מֶלְתָּחָה, Meltachah ; from an obscure root לתח, To Spread out as clothing; Sept. οικος v.r. μεσθά αλ; Vulg. Vestes ), the Wardrobe chamber of a temple, e.g. that of Baal ( 2 Kings 10:29); containing, doubtless, the fine official apparel of the priests.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [6]
ves´tri ( מלתּחה , meltāḥāh ): Once, in 2 Kings 10:22 , as a place for vestments.
