Ball
Ball
(, dur), well known as being used in various sports and games from the earliest times, several kinds of which are depicted on the Egyptian monuments (Wilkinson, 1:198 sq. abridg.). The word occurs in this sense in Isa 22:18, but in a subsequent chapter (29:3) it is employed of a ring or circle, and translated round about in the prophecy of the siege of Jerusalem. In Eze 24:5, in the symbol of the same event, it is translated burn, but probably means heap, as in the margin.
Among the Egyptians the balls were made of leather or skin, sewed with string, crosswise, in the same manner as our own, and stuffed with bran or husks of corn; and those which have been found at Thebes are about three inches in diameter. Others were made of string, or of the stalks of rushes platted together so as to form a circular mass, and covered, like the former, with leather. They appear also to have a smaller kind of ball, probably of the same materials, and covered, like many of our own, with slips of leather of an elliptical shape, sewed together longitudinally, and meeting in a common point at both ends, each alternate slip being of a different color; but these have only been met with in pottery (Wilkinson, 1:200).
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Ball (2)
in Hindu mythology, is a spirit with three heads, reigning in the east of hell. He teaches the science of making one’s self invisible. Sixty-six legions of spirits are his servants.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Ball
bol (, dur): A rare Hebrew word used in this sense only in Isa 22:18, and correctly rendered in the American Standard Revised Version He will surely wind thee round and round, and toss thee like a ball into a large country. De Or, Bttcher, Jastrow, following Talmud, regard the noun as kaddur, but perhaps incorrectly. See also GAMES.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Ball
Playing at
Isa 22:18