Story
King James Dictionary [1]
Story n. L., Gr.
1. A verbal narration or recital of a series of facts or incidents. WE observe in children a strong passion for hearing stories. 2. A written narrative of a series of facts or events. There is probably on record no story more interesting than that of Joseph in Genesis. 3. History a written narrative or account of past transactions, whether relating to nations or individuals.
The four great monarchies make the subject of ancient story.
4. Petty tale relation of a single incident or of trifling incidents. 5. A trifling tale a fiction a fable as the story of a fairy. In popular usage, story is sometimes a softer term for a lie. 6. A loft a floor or a set of rooms on the same floor or level. A story comprehends the distance from one floor to another as a story of nine or ten feet elevation. Hence each floor terminating the space is called a story as a house of one story, of two stories, of five stories. The farm houses in New England have usually two stories the houses in Paris have usually five stories a few have more those in London four. But in the United States the floor next the ground is the first story in France and England, the first floor or story, is the second from the ground.
STORY,
1. To tell in historical relation to narrate.
How worthy he is, I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing.
It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high.
This verb is chiefly used in the passive participle.
2. To range one under another. Little used.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( v. t.) To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story.
(2): ( v. t.) A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within.
(3): ( n.) A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.
(4): ( n.) The relation of an incident or minor event; a short narrative; a tale; especially, a fictitious narrative less elaborate than a novel; a short romance.
(5): ( n.) A euphemism or child's word for "a lie;" a fib; as, to tell a story.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
an adjective denoting "of three stories" (treis, "three," stege, "a roof"), occurs in Acts 20:9 (with oikema, "a dwelling," understood), RV, "the third story" (AV, "the third loft").
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [4]
STORY (EV [Note: English Version.] for ‘storey’). See House, § 5 .
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [5]
appears in the A.V. at 2 Chronicles 13:22; 2 Chronicles 24:27, as a rendering of מַדְרָשׁ , Midrash (q.v.), a Commentary, or historical statement (comp. "Caesar's Commentaries ") . (See History); (See Tale). In Amos 9:6 it is the translation of מִעֲלָה , Maalah, A Step, as often rendered. (See Degree); (See Stair). In Genesis 6:46; Ezekiel 41:16; Ezekiel 42:3, the word has been supplied by the translators in the sense of the successive Floors of a building. (See Ark); (See Temple).
