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Beam
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
or the rendering in the Auth. Vers. of the following words: אֶרֶג , e'reg, a web, Judges 16:14; shuttle," Job 2:6; מָנוֹר, manor', a yoke, hence a weaver's frame, or its principal beam, 1 Samuel 17:7; 2 Samuel 21:19; 1 Chronicles 11:23; 1 Chronicles 20:5; גֵּב, geb, a board, 1 Kings 6:9;
כָּפִיס, kaphis', a cross-beam or girder (Sept. κάνθαρος ), Habakkuk 2:11; צֵלָע, tsela', a rib, hence a joint, 1 Kings 7:3; "board," 6:15,16; "plank," 6:15; קוּרָה, kurah', a cross-piece or rafter, 2 Kings 6:2; 2 Kings 6:5; 2 Chronicles 3:7; Song of Solomon 1:17; עָב, ab, a projecting step, or architectural ornament like a moulding, answering for a threshold, 1 Kings 7:6; "thick plank," Ezekiel 41:25; כְּרֻתוֹת, keruthoth', hewed sticks of timber. 1 Kings 6:36; 1 Kings 7:2; 1 Kings 7:12; קָרָה (in Piel), to fit beams, hence to frame, Nehemiah 3:3; Nehemiah 3:6; Psalms 104:3; of no Hebrews word (being supplied in italics) in 1 Kings 6:6; δοκός, a stick of wood for building purposes, Matthew 7:3-5; Luke 6:41-42. In these last passages, Lightfoot shows that the expressions of our Lord were a common proverb among the Jews, having reference to the greater sins of one prone to censure the small faults of another. The "mote, κάρφος, may be understood as any very small dry particle, which, by lodging in the eye, causes distress and pain, and is here given as the emblem of lesser faults in opposition to a beam for the greater, as also in the parallel proverb, "Strain [out] a gnat and swallow a camel" (Matthew 23:24).
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Beam'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/b/beam.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
