Stall

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( v. i.) To be set, as in mire or snow; to stick fast.

(2): ( v. t.) To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.

(3): ( v. t.) To forestall; to anticipitate. Having

(4): ( n.) A covering or sheath, as of leather, horn, of iron, for a finger or thumb; a cot; as, a thumb stall; a finger stall.

(5): ( v. i.) To be tired of eating, as cattle.

(6): ( v. t.) To keep close; to keep secret.

(7): ( v. i.) To kennel, as dogs.

(8): ( v. i.) To live in, or as in, a stall; to dwell.

(9): ( v. i.) A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall.

(10): ( v. i.) A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.

(11): ( v. i.) A stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the compartment, for one horse, ox, or other animal.

(12): ( v. t.) To fatten; as, to stall cattle.

(13): ( v. t.) To put into a stall or stable; to keep in a stall or stalls; as, to stall an ox.

(14): ( v. t.) To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix; as, to stall a cart.

(15): ( v. i.) In the theater, a seat with arms or otherwise partly inclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.

(16): ( v. i.) A stable; a place for cattle.

(17): ( v. i.) The space left by excavation between pillars. See Post and stall, under Post.

(18): ( v. i.) A seat in the choir of a church, for one of the officiating clergy. It is inclosed, either wholly or partially, at the back and sides. The stalls are frequently very rich, with canopies and elaborate carving.

King James Dictionary

Stall n. G., to set, that is, to throw down, to thrust down. See Still.

1. Primarily, a stand a station a fixed spot hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox is kept and fed the division of a stable, or the apartment for one horse or ox. The stable contains eight or ten stalls. 2. A stable a place for cattle.

At last he found a stall where oxen stood.

3. In  1 Kings 4:26 stall is used for horse. Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots. In  2 Chronicles 9:25 , stall means stable. Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots. These passages are reconciled by the definition given above Solomon had four thousand stables, each containing ten stalls forty thousand stalls. 4. A bench, form or frame of shelves in the open air, where any thing is exposed to sale. It is curious to observe the stalls of books in the boulevards and other public places in Paris. 5. A small house or shed in which an occupation is carried on as a butchers stall. 6. The seat of a dignified clergyman in the choir.

The dignified clergy, out of humility, have called their thrones by the name of stalls. probably a mistake of the reason.

STALL,

1. To put into a stable or to keep in a stable as, to stall an ox.

Where king Latinus then his oxen stalld.

2. To install to place in an office with the customary formalities. For this, install is now used. 3. To set to fix to plunge into mire so as not to be able to proceed as, to stall horses or a carriage. This phrase I have heard in Virginia. In New England, set is used in a like sense.

STALL,

1. To dwell to inhabit.

We could not stall together in the world. Not in use.

2. To kennel. 3. To be set, as in mire. 4. To be tired of eating, as cattle.

Holman Bible Dictionary

Stable

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

STALL . See Manger.

Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament

STALL. —See Manger.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

stōl ((1) מרבּק , marbēḳ , literally,, "a place for tying up" (  Amos 6:4;  Malachi 4:2 ), (2) אבס , 'ābhaṣ , "to give fodder" ( Proverbs 15:17 ), (3) ארוה , 'urvāh , "to pluck and feed" ( 1 Kings 4:26;  2 Chronicles 9:25;  2 Chronicles 32:28 ), (4) רפת , repheth , "a resting place" ( Habakkuk 3:17 ); (5) φάτνη , phátnē , "a manger" or "crib" ( Luke 13:15; compare אבוּס , 'ēbhūṣ , translated "crib" in  Isaiah 1:3;  Proverbs 14:4 )): During the season when cattle are not being used they are allowed to roam in the fields. Otherwise they are tied in rooms in the winter time, or under shelters made of green boughs in the summer, and all their food brought to them. Horses and cattle alike are haltered and the chains fastened through holes made in stones projecting from the walls. No stanchions and no separating partitions between animals are used. The horses are usually hobbled as well.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

( מָרְבֵּק , Marbek, a Stable for cattle,  Amos 6:4;  Malachi 4:2; "fat,"  1 Samuel 28:24; "fatted,"  Jeremiah 46:21; אַרַוָה , Urvah, or אֻרְיָה , uryah, a crib,  2 Chronicles 32:33, or a Span,  1 Kings 4:26;  2 Chronicles 9:25; רֵפֵת , Repheth, a Rack for fodder,  Hebrews 3:17; Φάτνη ,  Luke 2:13, a Manger, as elsewhere rendered; Stalled is אָבוּס , crammed,  Proverbs 15:17; "fatted,"  1 Kings 4:23). Among the ancient Egyptians the stables for horses were in the center of the villa; but the farmyard, where the cattle were kept, stood at some distance. from the house, like the Roman Rustica. It consisted of two parts — the sheds for housing the cattle, which stood at the upper end, and the yard, where rows of rings were fixed in order to tie them while feeding in the day time (Wilkinson, Ancient Egypt. 1, 30). (See Horse).