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Streets
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
or In the towns and cities of Palestine, are supposed to have been comparatively narrow and ill graded, on account of the unevenness of their sites, and the little use of wheel-carriages. They were wider, however, than in many modern cities, Luke 14:21 , and terminated in large public areas around the gates, Nehemiah 8:1 . Josephus says that those of Jerusalem were paved. They were named, like our own streets, Acts 9:11 , and often resembled the bazaars of modern eastern cities, the shops of the same kind being in the same street and giving it its name, as the bakers' street, Nehemiah 3:31,32; Jeremiah 37:21 , and the valley of the cheesemongers. Here, and especially at the prominent points and corners, men loved, as the Turks do now, to spread their piece of carpet and sit, 1 Samuel 4:13; Job 29:7; and here at the hours of prayer they performed their devotions, Matthew 6:5 .
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Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Streets'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ats/s/streets.html. 1859.
