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Saddle

Bible Dictionary of Animals, Plants and other Objects

Credit: צולם על ידי חסן אבו חאמד

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Comments: A saddle is a device intended for sitting on the back of riding animals.

 

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Comments: A dromedary with a decorated saddle for a tourist ride, near the Dead Sea

 

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Comments: Roman squirrel saddle. Reconstruction without a saddle tree according to Marcus Junkelmann (now considered outdated).

 

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Comments: Weißenburg (Bavaria). Roman Museum: Reconstruction of an ancient Roman cavalry saddle.

 

From ISBE: Saddle, sad'-'-l: As noun (merkabh, "a riding seat") the word occurs in Leviticus 15:9 (margin "carriage"); ordinarily it is used as a verb (chabhash, literally, to "bind up" or "gird about"), to saddle an ass (Genesis 22:3; Numbers 22:21; Judges 19:10, etc.).

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Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​apo/​s/saddle.html. 2024.