Armory
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1):
(n.) Ensigns armorial; armorial bearings.
(2):
(n.) That branch of heraldry which treats of coat armor.
(3):
(n.) A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping.
(4):
(n.) A manufactory of arms, as rifles, muskets, pistols, bayonets, swords.
(5):
(n.) Armor; defensive and offensive arms.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [2]
ar´mẽr -i : (1) (אוצר , 'ōcar ; θησαυρός , thēsaurós ): A storehouse (1 Kings 7:51; Nehemiah 10:38 ), but employed figuratively of the stored-up anger of Yahweh which breaks forth in judgments (Jeremiah 50:25 ). (2) (נשׁק , nēsheḳ ): Identical with Solomon's "house of the forest of Lebanon," the arsenal close to the temple (1 Kings 10:17; Nehemiah 3:19; Isaiah 22:8 ), in which were stored the shields and targets of beaten gold. (3) (תּלפיּות , talpı̄yōth ): A puzzling word rendered "armory" in our versions (Song of Solomon 4:4 ) - "the tower of David builded for an armory, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men." the Revised Version margin renders "builded with turrets."
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Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
(תִּלְפִּיּוֹה, talpiyoth', destructives, i.e. weapons, Song of Solomon 4:4), the place in which armor was deposited in times of peace. Solomon had a naval arsenal at Ezion-geber (Jeremiah 1:25; 1 Kings 9:26). There is mention made in Nehemiah 3:19, of an armory (נֵשֶׁק, ne'shek, elsewhere armor) in Jerusalem, "at the turning of the wall," meaning probably the bend in the brow of Zion opposite the south-western corner of the Temple, near where the bridge connected them, although Josephus (Ant. 9:7, 2) speaks of the armory as being in the temple itself. This was probably the arsenal ("house of armor") which Hezekiah took so much pride in showing to the Babylonian ambassadors (Isaiah 39:2). Dr. Barclay (City of the Great King, p. 155) thinks it was the same as "the house of the forest of Lebanon" (2 Kings 10:17; Isaiah 22:8), and locates it at the north- eastern corner of Zion, adjoining the north-western angle of the Xystus. (See Arsenal).
