Bible Dictionaries
Table

Bible Dictionary of Animals, Plants and other Objects

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Comments: Egyptian Table. ca. 1700–1500 B.C. Second Intermediate Period–early New Kingdom. Late Dynasty 13–early dynasty 18.

 

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Comments: Nazareth Village. Carpenter at work in Nazareth Village (Seetheholyland.net)

 

From Easton: Tables - (Mark 7:4) means banqueting-couches or benches, on which the Jews reclined when at meals. This custom, along with the use of raised tables like ours, was introduced among the Jews after the Captivity. Before this they had, properly speaking, no table. That which served the purpose was a skin or piece of leather spread out on the carpeted floor. Sometimes a stool was placed in the middle of this skin. (See ABRAHAM'S BOSOM; BANQUET; MEALS.)

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