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A place where animals are kept either by enclosing them or tying them. Animals were usually kept in numbers rather than one animal in a stable or stall, as is often the case today. It could be a simple enclosure, a cave, or a building. Solomon kept large numbers of horses in stalls (1 Kings 4:26 ). Most people just kept their animals together. Some kept them in a lower part of their homes. Jesus was born in a stable possibly belonging to an inn for He was put in a manger (trough where animals were fed) after being wrapped in swaddling cloths. See Manger; Solomon .

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Butler, Trent C. Editor. Entry for 'Stable'. Holman Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hbd/s/stable.html. 1991.

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