Setting
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current.
(2): ( n.) That in which something, as a gem, is set; as, the gold setting of a jeweled pin.
(3): ( n.) Something set in, or inserted.
(4): ( n.) The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does; also, hunting with a setter.
(5): ( p. pr. & vb. n.) of Set
King James Dictionary [2]
SET'TING, ppr. Placing putting fixing studding appointing sinking below the horizon, &c.
SET'TING, n.
1. The act of putting, placing, fixing or establishing. 2. The act of sinking below the horizon. The setting of stars is of three kinds, cosmical, acronical, and heliacal. See these words. 3. The act or manner of taking birds by a setting dog. 4. Inclosure as settings of stones. 5. The direction of a current at sea.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
set´ing ( מלּאה , millu'āh , literally, "a filling"): The word is used in the description of the manufacture of the breastplate of judgment ( Exodus 28:17 ). The instruction runs: "Thou shalt set in it settings of stones," namely, four rows of precious stones. The same word is rendered "inclosings" in Exodus 28:20 , and in Exodus 39:13 the King James Version.
