Vault
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar.
(2): ( n.) The bound or leap of a horse; a curvet.
(3): ( n.) An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.
(4): ( n.) A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard, or the like.
(5): ( n.) The canopy of heaven; the sky.
(6): ( v. t.) To form with a vault, or to cover with a vault; to give the shape of an arch to; to arch; as, vault a roof; to vault a passage to a court.
(7): ( v. i.) To leap over; esp., to leap over by aid of the hands or a pole; as, to vault a fence.
(8): ( n.) To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.
(9): ( n.) A leap or bound.
(10): ( n.) To exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping; to tumble.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [2]
vôlt ( נצר , nācar , "to guard," "protest"): Isaiah's charge against Israel as "a people that ... lodge in the secret places" ( Isaiah 65:4 , margin "vaults," the King James Version "monuments") probably refers to the custom of sleeping in sacred tombs or vaults of idol temples to learn the future through dreams by the method known as incubation . See Divination , 6, (ii); 7, 1; Familiar Spirit; Witchcraft; and Expository Times , IX, 157 ff.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
Bibliography Information McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Vault'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/v/vault.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
