Mast
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) A pole, or long, strong, round piece of timber, or spar, set upright in a boat or vessel, to sustain the sails, yards, rigging, etc. A mast may also consist of several pieces of timber united by iron bands, or of a hollow pillar of iron or steel.
(2): ( n.) The vertical post of a derrick or crane.
(3): ( n.) A spar or strut to which tie wires or guys are attached for stiffening purposes.
(4): ( v. t.) To furnish with a mast or masts; to put the masts of in position; as, to mast a ship.
(5): ( n.) The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns.
King James Dictionary [2]
M`AST, n. A long, round piece of timber, elevated or designed to be raised perpendicularly or nearly so, on the keel of a ship or other vessel, to which the yards,sails and rigging are attached, and by which they are supported. A mast is a single stick, formed from the trunk of a tree, or it consists of many pieces of timber united by iron bands. Masts are of several kinds, as the main-mast, fore-mast, mizzen-mast, top-mast, top-gallant-mast, &c.
M`AST, n. The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees nuts acorns. It has no plural.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [3]
Proverbs 23:34 (b) Here we see a type of the condition of a drunken man who reels to and fro and has no certain standing. He is blown about easily by the winds of lust, and is carried away by his own evil mind.
Isaiah 33:23 (b) This type represents the helplessness of GOD's people to handle their own affairs properly. They must depend fully on the guidance of the Lord for their daily path.
Holman Bible Dictionary [4]
Proverbs 23:34 Isaiah 33:23 Ezekiel 27:5
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [5]
is the rendering in the Auth. Vers. of two Heb. words. חַבֵּל (Chibbel', so called from the Ropes and stays with which it is fastened), occurs only in Proverbs 23:34, "Thou (that tarriest long at the wine) shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of the mast" (Sept. É Σπερ Κυβερνήτης Ἐν Πολλῷ Κλύδωνι , Vulg. Quasi sopitus gubernator amnisso cleano), doubtless correctly as referring to an intoxicated sailor falling asleep at the mast-head in a storm at sea. תֹּרֶן (To'Ren, prob. l.q. אֹרֶן , a pine-tree) the Mast of a ship (Isaiah 23:23; Ezekiel 27:5; Sept Ἰστός , Vulg. Malus); also a Signal-Pole set up on mountains for an ensign ( Isaiah 30:17; Sept. Ἰστός ,Vulg. Ma lus, Auth. Vers. "beacon"). Ancient vessels had ofter two or three masts (see Smith's Dict. Of Class. Antiq.V. Malus). (See Ship).
