Roll
ROLL
See BOOK.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Roll
See Scroll.
Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
roll
(Latin: rotulus)
A long narrow strip of papyrus or parchment, written on one side, wound like a window-shade about its staff; the earliest “volume” of which we know. In the 4th and 5th centuries these rolls were partly replaced by bound books, but for certain purposes rolls were retained. To this class belong legal records, manuscripts for the chanting of the Exultet, and mortuary rolls or documents employed to publish the names of the deceased of monasteries and other associations.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Roll
(, megillah’; Sept. : but in Ezr 6:1, the Chald. , sephdr, a book, as elsewhere rendered: in Isa 8:1; , gillayon, a tablet, once of a mirror, Isa 3:23). A book in ancient times consisted of a single long strip of paper or parchment, which was usually kept rolled up on a stick, and was unrolled when a person wished to read it. SEE BOOK. Hence arose the term megillah, from galal, to roll, strictly answering to the Latin volumen, whence comes our volume; hence also the expressions, to spread and roll together (in Heb. [2Ki 19:14] and [Isa 34:4]: in Gr. and [Luk 4:17; Luk 4:20]), instead of to open and to shut a book. The full expression for a book was a roll of writing, or a roll of a book (Jer 36:2; Psa 40:7; Eze 2:9), but occasionally roll stands by itself (Zec 5:1-2; Ezr 6:2). The of the Sept. originally referred to the ornamental knob (the umbilicus of the Latins) at the top of the stick or cylinder round which the roll was wound. The use of the term megillah implies, of course, the existence of a soft and pliant material: what this material was in the Old Test. period we are not informed; but, as a knife was required for its destruction (Jer 36:23), we infer that it was parchment. The roll was usually written on one side only (Mishna, Erub. 10, 3), and hence the particular notice of one that was written within and without (Eze 2:10). The writing was arranged in columns, resembling a door in shape, and hence deriving their Hebrew name (, leaves), just as column, from its resemblance to a columna, or pillar. It has been asserted that the term megillah does not occur before the 7th century B.C., being first used by Jeremiah (Hitzig, in Jer 36:2); and the conclusion has been drawn that the use of such materials as parchment was not known until that period (Ewald, Gesch. 1, 71, note; Gesenius, Thesaur. p. 289). This is to assume, perhaps too confidently, a late date for the composition of Psalms 40, and to ignore the collateral evidence arising out of the expression roll together used by Isaiah (Isa 34:4), and also out of the probable reference to the Pentateuch in Psa 40:7, the roll of the book, a copy of which was deposited by the side of the ark (Deu 31:26). The book of Esther is specially designated by the Hebrew term Megillah. SEE MEGALLOTH.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Roll
the common form of ancient books. The Hebrew word rendered “roll” or “volume” is _meghillah_, found in Ezra 6:2; Ps. 40:7; Jer. 36:2, 6, 23, 28, 29; Ezek. 2:9; 3:1-3; Zech. 5:1, 2. “Rolls” (Chald. pl. of sephar, corresponding to Heb. sepher) in Ezra 6:1 is rendered in the Revised Version “archives.” In the New Testament the word “volume” (Heb. 10:7; R.V., “roll”) occurs as the rendering of the Greek kephalis, meaning the head or top of the stick or cylinder on which the manuscript was rolled, and hence the manuscript itself. (See BOOK)
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Roll
Ancient writings were rolled round a cylinder or stick. Volume means so (Jer 36:2; Psa 40:7; compare Deu 31:26; Eze 2:9-10, where the writing “within and without” was contrary to the usage of writing only on one side, implying the fullness of the prophecy of woe. The writing was in columns (delathot), literally, doors, on parchment or prepared skins.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Roll
ROLL (, ).The word roll is found in NT only in the Revised Version NT 1881, OT 1885 , and in the Gospels only as a marginal reading. In the account in Luke of our Lords sermon in the synagogue at Nazareth it occurs thrice in the margin (Luk 4:17 bis. lk 4:17 20) as the rendering of , where Authorized Version and text of Revised Version NT 1881, OT 1885 give book. In Heb 10:7 In the volume of the book it is written of me Revised Version NT 1881, OT 1885 gives roll for Authorized Version volume as the rendering of . The latter word occurs here only in NT, but it is quoted from the Septuagint (Psa 40:7), and thus its meaning is determined, as it is the translation of the Heb. , roll, although in Liddell and Scott is given as meaning chapter or passage. Why is taken to represent is uncertain, although it has been held that the reference was to the knobs or rounded heads of the roller about which the manuscript was rolled (see Grimm-Thayer, Lex. s.v.). The roll was the form of the book both in Palestine and Egypt, although usually, if not always, the Hebrew rolls were, originally at least, of skins which had gone through some process of tanning (see art. Book), while the Egyptian rolls were of papyrus. When papyrus began to be used in Palestine it is difficult to say. The codex form of book is generally held to have been introduced after the invention of parchment, but there is reason to believe that the Egyptians occasionally employed it for papyrus manuscripts, while the roll was the prevailing form.
Literature.Comm. on the NT; Kenyons art. Writing in Hasting’s Dictionary of the Bible , and his Textual Criticism of the NT, p. 19 f.
Geo. C. Watt.
Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
Roll
ROLL.See Writing, 6.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Roll
A sort of skin for making records upon. Before the art of printing, this was the method of forming registers, and making memorandums. Hence we are told that the prophet Jeremiah was commanded to take the roll of a book, and write all the words which the Lord had said unto him concerning Israel and Judah; and that Baruch wrote upon a roll, from the mouth of Jeremiah, all the words of the Lord. (Jer 36:1, etc.) So Ezekiel’s visions were written in a roll, and the Lord caused him to eat it; intimating, no doubt figuratively, the durable impression the words of the Lord made upon his mind. (See Eze 2:1-10; Eze 3:1-27; Rev 10:9. See also Jer 15:16)
Fuente: The Poor Mans Concordance and Dictionary to the Sacred Scriptures
Roll
Roll [WRITING]
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Roll
See BOOK.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Roll
Metallic table
Isa 8:1 Book
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Roll
Roll. A book, in ancient times, consisted of a single, long strip of paper or parchment, which was usually kept rolled upon a stick, and was unrolled when a person wished to read it. The roll was usually written on one side only, and hence, the particular notice of one that was “written within and without.” Eze 2:10. The writing was arranged in columns.
Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary
Roll
(verb)
Mic 1:10 (a) This is the picture of a voluntary humbling of these people.
(noun)
Eze 3:1 (c) This parchment is a type of all the precious Word of GOD. It is to be appropriated personally, received in the heart and hidden in the mind of each person.