Wood
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
denotes "timber, wood for any use" 1—Corinthians 3:12; Revelation 18:12 (twice). See Staff , Stocks , Tree.
denotes "a wood, a forest," James 3:5 (AV, "matter," marg., "wood"). See Matter , Note (3).
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( v. i.) To take or get a supply of wood.
(2): ( a.) Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.
(3): ( v. t.) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.
(4): ( n.) The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain.
(5): ( n.) Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
(6): ( n.) The substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark; timber.
(7): ( n.) A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; - frequently used in the plural.
(8): ( v. i.) To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad.
King James Dictionary [3]
WOOD, a. Mad furious.
WOOD, n.
1. A large and thick collection of trees a forest.
Light thickens, and the crow makes wing to the rooky wood.
2. The substance of trees the hard substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark. 3. Trees cut or sawed for the fire. Wood is yet the principal fuel in the United States. 4. An idol. Habakkuk 2 .
WOOD, To supply or get supplies of wood.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [4]
1 Corinthians 3:12 (b) The word is used to represent Christian activities, which look big, but have little value in GOD's sight. "Wood" (works) make a big pile in men's eyes, but will not stand the searching judgment of GOD.
Smith's Bible Dictionary [5]
Wood. See Forest .
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [6]
WOOD . See Forest, also Writing, 6 .
Morrish Bible Dictionary [7]
See FOREST.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [8]
(usually עֵ , also rendered "tree;" Ζῦλον ) . The East, especially Egypt (Hasselquist, p. 70; Norden, p. 361), is remarkably destitute of forests, and Palestine. is nearly as barren of them, except in some of the northern and eastern districts. (See Tree). Consequently the inhabitants are obliged to use, instead of fire-wood, dried grass ( Matthew 6:30; Luke 12:28), or plants, leaves, straw (Matthew 3, 12; Mishna, Shabb. 3, 1)', and, in the absence of these, dung ( Ezekiel 4:12; Ezekiel 4:15; see Prokesch, Erinner. 2, 248), and in Babylon mineral pitch (Diod. Sic. 2, 12). Comp. Korte, Reis. p. 577; Taverner, 1, 280; Arvieux, 1, 152; Robinson, 1, 342; 3, 293; Wellsted, 2, 60. (See Fuel).
An unusual supply was required for the sacrificial fire. (See Burnt- Offering). Charcoal was also used. (See Coal). That the advantage of forests was a common property does not follow from Lamentations 4:4, and is of itself very improbable in a land where a strict system of proprietorship was in vogue. For the various fabrics of this material (See Handicraft). The chief trades concerned were carpenters ( Exodus 35:30 sq.), cabinetmakers ( Exodus 25:10 sq.; Exodus 37:1; Exodus 37:10; Exodus 37:15; Exodus 37:25, etc.), wheelwrights, ( Judges 4:13; 1 Samuel 6:7; 1 Kings 7:33; 1 Kings 9:19; Hosea 10:11, etc.), basket-weavers ( Numbers 6:15 sq.; Deuteronomy 26:2; Deuteronomy 26:4; Judges 6:19), and (unlawfully) image carvers. (See Idol). On the other hand, we find no trace of cooperage (not even in Jeremiah 48:12, where כֵּלַי denotes not casks, but vessels generally). Anciently, as still, the Orientals used leather bottles, horns, and jars, instead of barrels; but pails (wooden buckets) were probably unknown ( Leviticus 15:12 ?). The tools of wood-workers were the axe or hatchet ( קִרְדֹּם or גִּרְזֶן ), the saw ( מִשּׂוֹר ), the plane ( מִקְצוּעָה ), and the auger (Talm. מקרח , Mishna, Chel. 13:4). See, generally, Bellerman, Handb. 1, 232 sq. As ships were not built by the Hebrews, and stone was the ready material for building, architecture had little use for wood. See. House
References
- ↑ Wood from Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
- ↑ Wood from Webster's Dictionary
- ↑ Wood from King James Dictionary
- ↑ Wood from Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
- ↑ Wood from Smith's Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Wood from Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
- ↑ Wood from Morrish Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Wood from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
