Bank
Bank
In Luk 19:23, the Greek word , table, is rendered bank in the modern sense of the term, which, by a similar appropriation, is derived from the same root as bench. In Mat 21:12; Mar 11:15; and Joh 2:15, it is employed literally, and denotes the table of the money-changer (q.v.), at which he sat in the market-place, as is still the custom in the East, and also in the outer court of the Temple. In other passages it denotes an ordinary table for food.
The term bank, , solelah’, also occurs in 2Sa 20:15; 2Ki 19:32; Isa 37:33, as the name of the mound raised against a besieged city; it is elsewhere rendered mount in the same sense. SEE SIEGE.
The bank or shore of a river or sea is designated by the Hebrews term or , gadah’ or gidyah’, and , saphah’, a lip.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Bank
BANK.1. In the parable of the Pounds, Christ upbraids the slothful servant because he had not I given his pound to the bank ( ), i.e. the office of the money-changers (Luk 19:23), who would have kept it safe, and also paid interest for it. Bankers () is used in Revised Version NT 1881, OT 1885 of Mat 25:27 for money-changers of the Authorized Version . In Greek cities the bankers sat at their tables () in the market-place. They changed coins, but also took money on deposit, giving what would now seem very high interest (see articles Money-Changers and Usury in vols. iii. and iv. of Hasting’s Dictionary of the Bible ).
In this parable some suppose that Christ meant by the bank to indicate the Synagogue, or the Christian Church as an organized body, which might use the gifts or powers of a disciple, when he could not, through timidity or lack of energy, exercise them himself. Others have supposed that He pointed to prayer as a substitute for good works, when the disciple was unable to do such. But all this is very precarious. (Cf. Bruce, Parabolic Teaching of Christ, p. 209 f.).
There is an apocryphal saying of Christ which may be connected with this parable. Origen (in Joann. xix. etc.) gives it thus: , Be ye tried money-changers. This is explained in the Clementine Homilies (iii. 61) to mean that Christians should prove the words of Christ, as the bankers lest and approve the gold and silver on their tables. But it may perhaps he looked at rather as connected with the stewardship of gifts and talents by the Lords disciples, finding its parallel in such sayings as Luk 16:12 If ye have not been faithful in that which is another mans, who shall give you that which is your own? The duty of a timid servant may be to use his gifts under the guidance and authority of others, but growing experience might advance him to be a himself, who is able to trade boldly with that which has been entrusted to him.
2. In Luk 19:43 bank, Authorized Version trench (Gr. ). probably stands for a palisade (so (Revised Version margin) ) of stakes, strengthened with brandies and earth, with a ditch behind, used by besiegers as a protection against arrows or attacking parties (Lat. vallum). Such a palisade was actually employed by the soldiers of Titus in the siege of Jerusalem, a.d. 70 (Josephus BJ v. vi. 2).
David M. W. Laird.
Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
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BANK.1. A mound of earth in siegecraft, see Fortification and Sieoecraft. 2. The table of a money-changer or banker, see Money-changers.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
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bank:
(1) (, saphah, lip, edge): By the bank of the Jordan (2Ki 2:13); Upon the bank of the river were very many trees (Eze 47:7, Eze 47:12).
(2) (, gadhah, cuttings): Always of banks overflowed (Jos 3:15; Jos 4:18; Isa 8:7), as also
(3) (, gidhyah, 1Ch 12:15).
(4) (, solelah, mound, rampart): Cast up a bank against the city (2Sa 20:15, the English Revised Version mount, the American Standard Revised Version mound; compare 2Ki 19:32; Isa 37:33). Banks of sweet herbs (Son 5:13); the marginal rendering is the right one, ‘towers of perfumes,’ i.e. plants with fragrant leaves and flowers trained on trellis-work (Speaker’s Commentary in the place cited.).
(5) ((, charax, a stake, entrenchment): Thine enemies shall cast up a bank about thee (Luk 19:43 the King James Version trench). It is probably a military term and stands for a palisade (so the Revised Version, margin), i.e. probably an embankment of stakes strengthened with branches and earth, with a ditch behind it, used by the besiegers as a protection against arrows or attacking parties (Latin vallum), such, no doubt, as was employed by Titus in the siege of Jerusalem, 70 ad (Josephus, BJ, V, vi, 2).
(6) BANK; BANKING (which see).
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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. This is literally a table, and mostly so translated, and which could be used for any purpose. Luk 19:23. In Mat 25:27 a kindred word is translated ‘exchangers:’ both passages imply that there were in those days, as now, those who received and lent money on interest.