Wood
Wood
(usually , also rendered tree; ). The East, especially Egypt (Hasselquist, p. 70; Norden, p. 361), is remarkably destitute of forests, and Palestine. is nearly as barren of them, except in some of the northern and eastern districts. SEE TREE. Consequently the inhabitants are obliged to use, instead of fire-wood, dried grass (Mat 6:30; Luk 12:28), or plants, leaves, straw (Matthew 3, 12; Mishna, Shabb. 3, 1)’, and, in the absence of these, dung (Eze 4:12; Eze 4:15; see Prokesch, Erinner. 2, 248), and in Babylon mineral pitch (Diod. Sic. 2, 12). Comp. Korte, Reis. p. 577; Taverner, 1, 280; Arvieux, 1, 152; Robinson, 1, 342; 3, 293; Wellsted, 2, 60. SEE FUEL.
An unusual supply was required for the sacrificial fire. SEE BURNT- OFFERING. Charcoal was also used. SEE COAL. That the advantage of forests was a common property does not follow from Lam 4:4, and is of itself very improbable in a land where a strict system of proprietorship was in vogue. For the various fabrics of this material SEE HANDICRAFT. The chief trades concerned were carpenters (Exo 35:30 sq.), cabinetmakers (Exo 25:10 sq.; Exo 37:1; Exo 37:10; Exo 37:15; Exo 37:25, etc.), wheelwrights, (Jdg 4:13; 1Sa 6:7; 1Ki 7:33; 1Ki 9:19; Hos 10:11, etc.), basket-weavers (Num 6:15 sq.; Deu 26:2; Deu 26:4; Jdg 6:19), and (unlawfully) image carvers. SEE IDOL. On the other hand, we find no trace of cooperage (not even in Jer 48:12, where denotes not casks, but vessels generally). Anciently, as still, the Orientals used leather bottles, horns, and jars, instead of barrels; but pails (wooden buckets) were probably unknown (Lev 15:12 ?). The tools of wood-workers were the axe or hatchet ( or ), the saw (), the plane (), and the auger (Talm. , Mishna, Chel. 13:4). See, generally, Bellerman, Handb. 1, 232 sq. As ships were not built by the Hebrews, and stone was the ready material for building, architecture had little use for wood. SEE. HOUSE.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Wood
See FOREST.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Wood
WOOD.See Forest, also Writing, 6.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Wood
wood. See BOTANY; FOREST; TREES.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Wood
See FOREST.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Wood
Wood. See Forest.
Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary
Wood
denotes “timber, wood for any use” 1Co 3:12; Rev 18:12 (twice). See STAFF, STOCKS, TREE.
denotes “a wood, a forest,” Jam 3:5 (AV, “matter,” marg., “wood”). See MATTER, Note (3).
Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words
Wood
1Co 3:12 (b) The word is used to represent Christian activities, which look big, but have little value in GOD’s sight. “Wood” (works) make a big pile in men’s eyes, but will not stand the searching judgment of GOD.