Roll
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
"to roll away" (apo, "from," kulio, "to roll;" cp. Eng., "cylinder," etc.), is used of the sepulchre stone, Matthew 28:2; Mark 16:3 (ver. 4 in some mss.; see No. 2); Luke 24:2 . In the Sept., Genesis 29:3,8,10 .
"to roll up or back" (ana), is found in the best texts, in Mark 16:4 (see No. 1).
"to roll up or to" (pros), is used in Matthew 27:60; Mark 15:46 , of the sepulchre stone.
"to roll," or "roll up," is used (a) of the "rolling" up of a mantle, illustratively of the heavens, Hebrews 1:12 , RV; (b) of the "rolling" up of a scroll, Revelation 6:14 , illustratively of the removing of the heaven.
"to wrap up, roll round or about," is translated "rolled up" in John 20:7 , RV, of the cloth or "napkin" that had been wrapped around the head of the Lord before burial. Both the RV and the AV, "wrapped together," might suggest that this cloth had been "rolled" or wrapped up and put in a certain part of the tomb at the Lord's resurrection, whereas, as with the body wrappings, the head cloth was lying as it had been "rolled" round His head, an evidence, to those who looked into the tomb, of the fact of His resurrection without any disturbance of the wrappings either by friend or foe or when the change took place. It is followed by en, "in," and translated "wrapped" in Matthew 27:59 , a meaning and construction which Moulton and Milligan illustrate from the papyri; in Luke 23:53 it is followed by the dative of the noun sindon, "linen cloth," used instrumentally. See Wrap.
lit., "a little head" (a diminutive of kephale, "a head;" Lat., capitulum, a diminutive of caput), hence, "a capital of a column," then, "a roll" (of a book), occurs in Hebrews 10:7 , RV, "in the roll" (AV, "in the volume"), lit., "in the heading of the scroll" (from Psalm 40:7 ).
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( v. i.) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls.
(2): ( v. i.) To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.
(3): ( v. i.) To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
(4): ( v. i.) To incline first to one side, then to the other; to rock; as, there is a great difference in ships about rolling; in a general semse, to be tossed about.
(5): ( v. i.) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.
(6): ( v.) A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.
(7): ( v.) Part; office; duty; role.
(8): ( v. i.) To fall or tumble; - with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.
(9): ( v.) The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
(10): ( n.) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.
(11): ( n.) To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball.
(12): ( n.) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; - often with up; as, to roll up a parcel.
(13): ( n.) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.
(14): ( n.) To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; - often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences.
(15): ( n.) To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc.
(16): ( n.) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
(17): ( n.) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
(18): ( n.) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
(19): ( n.) To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
(20): ( v. i.) To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding; to revolve upon an axis; to turn over and over; as, a ball or wheel rolls on the earth; a body rolls on an inclined plane.
(21): ( v. i.) To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street.
(22): ( v.) A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.
(23): ( v.) A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
(24): ( v. i.) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.
(25): ( v. i.) To turn; to move circularly.
(26): ( v.) A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder.
(27): ( v.) The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching.
(28): ( v. i.) To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls.
(29): ( v. i.) To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well.
(30): ( v.) A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
(31): ( v.) The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves.
(32): ( v.) That which rolls; a roller.
(33): ( v.) A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
(34): ( v.) One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill; as, to pass rails through the rolls.
(35): ( v.) That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.
(36): ( v.) Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.
King James Dictionary [3]
ROLL, It is usual to consider this word as formed by contraction from the Latin rotula, a little wheel, from rota.
1. To move by turning on the surface, or with a circular motion in which all parts of the surface are successively applied to a plane as, to roll a barrel or puncheon to roll a stone or ball. Sisyphus was condemned to roll a stone to the top of a hill, which, when he had done so, rolled down again, and thus his punishment was eternal. 2. To revolve to turn on its axis as, to roll a wheel or a planet. 3. To move in a circular direction.
To dress, to troll the tongue and roll the eye.
4. To wrap round on itself to form into a circular or cylindrical body as, to roll a piece of cloth to roll a sheet of paper to roll parchment to roll tobacco. 5. To enwrap to bind or involve in a bandage or the like. 6. To form by rolling into round masses. 7. To drive or impel any body with a circular motion, or to drive forward with violence or in a stream. The ocean rolls its billows to the shore. A river rolls its water to the ocean. 8. To spread with a roller or rolling pin as, to roll paste. 9. To produce a periodical revolution.
Heav'n shone and roll'd her motions.
10. To press or level with a roller as, to roll a field.
To roll one's self, to wallow. Micah 1 .
ROLL,
1. To move by turning on the surface, or with the successive application of all parts of the surface to a plane as, a ball or a wheel rolls on the earth a body rolls on an inclined plane. 2. To move, turn or run on an axis as a wheel. In this sense, revolve is more generally used. 3. To run on wheels.
And to the rolling chair is bound.
4. To revolve to perform a periodical revolution as the rolling year. Ages roll away. 5. To turn to move circularly.
And his red eyeballs roll with living fire.
6. To float in rough water to be tossed about.
Twice ten tempestuous nights I roll'd -
7. To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swells and depressions. Waves roll on waves. 8. To fluctuate to move tumultuously.
What diff'rent sorrows did within thee roll.
9. To be moved with violence to be hurled.
Down they fell by thousands, angel on archangel roll'd.
10. To be formed into a cylinder or ball as, the cloth rolls well. 11. To spread under a roller or rolling pin. The paste rolls well. 12. To wallow to tumble as, a horse rolls. 13. To rock or move from side as, a ship rolls in a calm. 14. To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.
ROLL, n.
1. The act of rolling, or state of being rolled as the roll of a ball. 2. The thing rolling. 3. A mass made round something like a ball or cylinder as a roll of fat a roll of wool. 4. A roller a cylinder of wood, iron or stone as a roll to break clods. 5. A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form as a roll of woolen or satin a roll of lace. 6. A cylindrical twist of tobacco. 7. An official writing a list a register a catalogue as a muster-roll a court roll. 8. The beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear. 9. Rolls of court, of parliament, or of any public body, are the parchments on which are engrossed, by the proper officer, the acts and proceedings of that body, and which being kept in rolls, constitute the records of such public body. 10. In antiquity, a volume a book consisting of leaf, bark, paper, skin or other material on which the ancients wrote, and which being kept rolled or folded, was called in Latin volume, from volvo, to roll. Hence. 11. A chronicle history annals.
Nor names more noble graced the rolls of fame.
12. Part office that is, round of duty, like turn. Obs.
Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary [4]
A sort of skin for making records upon. Before the art of printing, this was the method of forming registers, and making memorandums. Hence we are told that the prophet Jeremiah was commanded to take the roll of a book, and write all the words which the Lord had said unto him concerning Israel and Judah; and that Baruch wrote upon a roll, from the mouth of Jeremiah, all the words of the Lord. ( Jeremiah 36:1, etc.) So Ezekiel's visions were written in a roll, and the Lord caused him to eat it; intimating, no doubt figuratively, the durable impression the words of the Lord made upon his mind. (See Ezekiel 2:1-10; Ezekiel 3:1-27; Revelation 10:9. See also Jeremiah 15:16)
Fausset's Bible Dictionary [5]
Ancient writings were rolled round a cylinder or stick. Volume means so ( Jeremiah 36:2; Psalms 40:7; compare Deuteronomy 31:26; Ezekiel 2:9-10, where the writing "within and without" was contrary to the usage of writing only on one side, implying the fullness of the prophecy of woe. The writing was in columns ( Delathot ), literally, doors, on parchment or prepared skins.
Easton's Bible Dictionary [6]
Meghillah Ezra 6:2 Psalm 40:7 Jeremiah 36:2,6,23,28,29 Ezekiel 2:9 3:1-3 Zechariah 5:1,2 Ezra 6:1 Hebrews 10:7Book
Smith's Bible Dictionary [7]
Roll. A book, in ancient times, consisted of a single, long strip of paper or parchment, which was usually kept rolled upon a stick, and was unrolled when a person wished to read it. The roll was usually written on one side only, and hence, the particular notice of one that was "written within and without." Ezekiel 2:10. The writing was arranged in columns.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [8]
(verb)
Micah 1:10 (a) This is the picture of a voluntary humbling of these people.
(noun)
Ezekiel 3:1 (c) This parchment is a type of all the precious Word of GOD. It is to be appropriated personally, received in the heart and hidden in the mind of each person.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [9]
ROLL . See Writing, 6 .
Holman Bible Dictionary [10]
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary [11]
See Book .
Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament [12]
See Scroll.
Morrish Bible Dictionary [13]
See BOOK.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [14]
( מְגַלָּה , Megillah '; Sept. Κεφαλίς : but in Ezra 6:1, the Chald. סְפִר , Sephdr , a Book , as elsewhere rendered: in Isaiah 8:1; גַּלָּיוֹן , Gillayon , a Tablet , once of a mirror, Isaiah 3:23). A book in ancient times consisted of a single long strip of paper or parchment, which was usually kept rolled up on a stick, and was unrolled when a person wished to read it. (See Book). Hence arose the term Megillah , from Galal , " to roll," strictly answering to the Latin Volumen , whence comes our Volume ; hence also the expressions, "to spread" and "roll together" (in Heb. פָּרֵשׂ [ 2 Kings 19:14] and גָּלִל [ Isaiah 34:4]: in Gr. Ἀναπτύσσειν and Πτύσσειν [ Luke 4:17; Luke 4:20]), instead of "to open" and "to shut" a book. The full expression for a book was "a roll of writing, " or "a roll of a book" ( Jeremiah 36:2; Psalms 40:7; Ezekiel 2:9), but occasionally "roll" stands by itself ( Zechariah 5:1-2; Ezra 6:2). The Κεφαλίς of the Sept. originally referred to the ornamental knob (the Umbilicus of the Latins) at the top of the stick or cylinder round which the roll was wound. The use of the term Megillah implies, of course, the existence of a soft and pliant material: what this material was in the Old Test. period we are not informed; but, as a knife was required for its destruction ( Jeremiah 36:23), we infer that it was parchment. The roll was usually written on one side only (Mishna, Erub. 10, § 3), and hence the particular notice of one that was "written within and without" ( Ezekiel 2:10). The writing was arranged in columns, resembling a door in shape, and hence deriving their Hebrew name ( דְּלָתוֹת , Leaves ), just as "column, " from its resemblance to a Columna , or pillar. It has been asserted that the term megillah does not occur before the 7th century B.C., being first used by Jeremiah (Hitzig, in Jeremiah 36:2); and the conclusion has been drawn that the use of such materials as parchment was not known until that period (Ewald, Gesch. 1, 71, note; Gesenius, Thesaur. p. 289). This is to assume, perhaps too confidently, a late date for the composition of Psalms 40, and to ignore the collateral evidence arising out of the expression "roll together" used by Isaiah ( Isaiah 34:4), and also out of the probable reference to the Pentateuch in Psalms 40:7, "the roll of the book, " a copy of which was deposited by the side of the ark ( Deuteronomy 31:26). The book of Esther is specially designated by the Hebrew term Megillah. (See Megalloth).
Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature [15]
Roll [WRITING]
References
- ↑ Roll from Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
- ↑ Roll from Webster's Dictionary
- ↑ Roll from King James Dictionary
- ↑ Roll from Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary
- ↑ Roll from Fausset's Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Roll from Easton's Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Roll from Smith's Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Roll from Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
- ↑ Roll from Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
- ↑ Roll from Holman Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Roll from American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Roll from Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament
- ↑ Roll from Morrish Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Roll from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
- ↑ Roll from Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature
