Pestle
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar.
(2): ( n.) A constable's or bailiff's staff; - so called from its shape.
(3): ( n.) The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig; as, a pestle of pork.
(4): ( v. t. & i.) To pound, pulverize, bray, or mix with a pestle, or as with a pestle; to use a pestle.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [2]
Proverbs 27:22 (b) We are assured in this passage that no amount of good associations nor splendid education will change a fool's heart. Only the power of GOD, only the Spirit of GOD, only the Word of GOD, can accomplish this tremendous transformation.
King James Dictionary [3]
PESTLE, n. pes'l. L. pistillum, and probably pinso, for piso, to pound or beat. An instrument for pounding and breaking substances in a mortar.
Pestle of port, a gammon of bacon.
Holman Bible Dictionary [4]
Proverbs 27:22
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [5]
( עֵַלי , Eli, so called either as being Round or Lifted Up ) , the instrument used for triturating in a mortar ( Proverbs 27:22). It is supposed, from the above passage, not that the wheat was pounded to meal instead of being ground, but that it was pounded to be separated from the husk. The Jews very probably used wheat in the same manner as rice is now used in the East, that is, boiled up in Pillaus variously prepared, which required that it should, like rice, be previously disengaged from the husk. (See Mortar).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [6]
pes ´' 50 ( עלי , 'ĕlı̄ ): A rounded implement of wood or stone used for pounding, bruising, or powdering materials in a mortar. Used only in Proverbs 27:22 . See Mortar .
