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| == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_187332" /> ==
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| <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' v. t.) An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' v. t.) A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it. </p> <p> '''(6):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To have direction; to aim or tend. </p> <p> '''(7):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To encroach; to intrench. </p> <p> '''(8):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops. </p> <p> '''(9):''' ''' (''' v. t.) An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches. </p> | | Trench <ref name="term_63627" /> |
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| | <p> ( '''''חֵיל''''' '', Cheyl,'' 2 Samuel 20:15, a wall, rampart, or bulwark, as elsewhere rendered; '''''מִעגָּל''''' , ''Magal,'' 1 Samuel 26:5; 1 Samuel 26:7; or '''''מִעַגָּלָה''''' , magaldh, 17:20, a wagon-rut, hence a defense formed by the vehicles of an army; '''''Χάρξ''''' , Luke 19:43, a [[Mound]] [Lat. ''Vallum'' ] for blockading a besieged city, formed of the earth thrown out of a moat and stuck with sharp sticks or palisades) is also a military term, and denotes one description of the approaches to a fortified town. They were anciently used to surround a town, to enclose the besieged, and to secure the besiegers against attacks from them. Trenches could not be cut in a rock; and it is probable that, when our Lord says of [[Jerusalem]] ( Luke 19:43), [[Thy]] enemies shall cast a trench about thee, meaning, "they shall raise a wall of enclosure," he foretold what the [[Jews]] would barely credit from the nature of the case; perhaps what they considered as impossible: yet the providence of God has so ordered it that we have evidence to this fact in Josephus, who says that Titus exhorting his soldiers, they surrounded Jerusalem with a wall in the space of three days, although the general opinion had pronounced it impossible. This circumvolution prevented any escape from the city, and deterred from all attempts at relief by succors going into it. (See [[Siege]]). </p> |
| == King James Dictionary <ref name="term_63881" /> ==
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| <p> [[Trench]] </p> 1. To cut or dig, as a ditch, a channel for water, or a long hollow in the earth. We trench land for draining. This is the appropriate sense of the word. 2. To fortify by cutting a ditch and raising a rampart or breast-work of earth thrown out of the ditch. In this sense, entrench is more generally used. 3. To furrow to form with deep furrows by plowing. 4. To cut a long gash. Not in use. <p> TRENCH, To encroach. See Entrench. </p> <p> TRENCH, n. A long narrow cut in the earth a ditch as a trench for draining land. </p> 1. In fortification, a deep ditch cut for defense, or to interrupt the approach of an enemy. The wall or breast-work formed by the earth thrown out of the ditch, is also called a trench, as also any raised work formed with bavins, gabions, wool-packs or other solid materials, Hence, the phrases, to mount the trenches, to guard the trenches, to clear the trenches, &c.open the trenches, to begin to dig, or to form the lines of approach.
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| == Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_79570" /> ==
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| <div> '''1: '''''Χάραξ''''' ''' (Strong'S #5482 — Noun Masculine — charax — khar'-ax ) </div> <p> primarily "a pointed stake," hence, "a palisade or rampart," is rendered "trench" in Luke 19:43 , AV (RV, "bank," marg., "palisade"). In A.D. 70, Titus, the Roman general, surrounded [[Jerusalem]] with a palisaded mound (Tyndale, l.c., renders it "mound"). The [[Jews]] in one of their sorties destroyed this charax, after which Titus surrounded the city with a wall of masonry. </p>
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| == American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_17384" /> ==
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| <p> A passage of approach to the walls of a besieged city, like a deep ditch; the earth thrown up constituting a wall. The Redeemer, weeping over Jerusalem a few days before he was crucified under its walls, said, "The days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side," Luke 19:43 . The Romans fulfilled this prediction by enclosing the entire city of Jerusalem by a wall, that the Jews might neither escape nor be relieved from without. In 1 Samuel 26:5 , "trench" appears to mean the circle formed by camp equipage. See [[Camp, Encampments]] </p>
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| == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_63623" /> ==
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| <p> (prop. '''''תַּעָלָה''''' , ''Tealah,'' 1 Kings 18:32; 1 Kings 18:35; 1 Kings 18:38, a ''Channel,'' or "conduit," as elsewhere), a kind of ditch cut into the earth for the purpose of receiving and draining the water from adjacent parts. Something of this kind was the trench cut by the prophet Elijah to contain the water which he ordered to be poured on his sacrifice ( 1 Kings 18:32), and which, when filled to the brim. with water, was entirely exhausted, evaporated, by the fire of the Lord which consumed the sacrifice. (See [[Elijah]]). </p>
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| | | <ref name="term_63627"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/trench+(2) Trench from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> |
| <ref name="term_187332"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/trench Trench from Webster's Dictionary]</ref> | |
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| <ref name="term_63881"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/king-james-dictionary/trench Trench from King James Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_79570"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/vine-s-expository-dictionary-of-nt-words/trench Trench from Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_17384"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/american-tract-society-bible-dictionary/trench Trench from American Tract Society Bible Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_63623"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/trench Trench from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
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( חֵיל , Cheyl, 2 Samuel 20:15, a wall, rampart, or bulwark, as elsewhere rendered; מִעגָּל , Magal, 1 Samuel 26:5; 1 Samuel 26:7; or מִעַגָּלָה , magaldh, 17:20, a wagon-rut, hence a defense formed by the vehicles of an army; Χάρξ , Luke 19:43, a Mound [Lat. Vallum ] for blockading a besieged city, formed of the earth thrown out of a moat and stuck with sharp sticks or palisades) is also a military term, and denotes one description of the approaches to a fortified town. They were anciently used to surround a town, to enclose the besieged, and to secure the besiegers against attacks from them. Trenches could not be cut in a rock; and it is probable that, when our Lord says of Jerusalem ( Luke 19:43), Thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee, meaning, "they shall raise a wall of enclosure," he foretold what the Jews would barely credit from the nature of the case; perhaps what they considered as impossible: yet the providence of God has so ordered it that we have evidence to this fact in Josephus, who says that Titus exhorting his soldiers, they surrounded Jerusalem with a wall in the space of three days, although the general opinion had pronounced it impossible. This circumvolution prevented any escape from the city, and deterred from all attempts at relief by succors going into it. (See Siege).
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