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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Battlements

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: Yes
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: Yes
  • Included in Smiths: Yes
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Battlement

A parapet wall or balustrade surrounding the flat roofs of the houses, required to be built by a special law (Deuteronomy 22:8). In Jeremiah 5:10, it denotes the parapet of a city wall.


Smith's Bible Dictionary
Battlement

Among the Jews a battlement was required by law to be built upon every house. It consisted of a low wall built around the roofs of the houses to prevent persons from falling off, and sometimes serving as a partition from another building. (22:8; Jeremiah 5:10)


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Battlement

BAT'TLEMENT, noun [This is said to have been bastillement, from bastille, a fortification.]

A wall raised on a building with openings or embrasures, or the

embrasure itself.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Battlemented

BAT'TLEMENTED, adjective Secured by battlements.


Naves Topical Index
Battlements

On roofs of houses
Deuteronomy 22:8

On walls
Jeremiah 5:10