Shrine
SHRINE
See DIANA.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
shrine
(Latin: scrinium)
Case or chest for books or papers, the box, casket, or other repository in which the relics of a saint are preserved. Also refers to a tomb-like erection of rich workmanship enclosing the same. See also the entry on pilgrimages .
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Shrine
(, Act 19:24, a temple, as elsewhere rendered), a miniature copy of the Temple of Diana at Ephesus containing a small image of the goddess. SEE DIANA.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Shrine (2)
(Lat. scrinium), a feretory or repository for relics, whether fixed, such as a tomb, or movable. The term is also sometimes.applied to the tomb of a person not canonized. Shrines were often made of the most splendid and costly materials, and enriched with jewelry in profusion, as that of St. Taurin at Evreoux, in Normandy. Those which were movable were, on certain occasions, carried in religious processions; they were arranged above and behind the altar, on rood or other beams, and lamps were suspended before or around them. Others were substantial erections, generally the tombs of saints, as that of Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey, and that of St. Cuthbert, formerly in Durham Cathedral, etc. These were not unfrequently rebuilt (with additional splendor) subsequently to their first erection.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Shrine
SHRINE.See Diana.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Shrine
shrn (, naos): In Act 19:24 small models of temples for Diana.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Shrine
Small representations of heathen temples, as at Ephesus or elsewhere. The word is , often translated ‘temple.’ Act 19:24.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Shrine
An idolatrous symbol of the Temple of Diana.
Act 19:24
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Shrine
“the inmost part of a temple, a shrine,” is used in the plural in Act 19:24, of the silver models of the pagan “shrine” in which the image of Diana (Greek Artemis) was preserved. The models were large or small, and were signs of wealth and devotion on the part of purchasers. The variety of forms connected with the embellishment of the image provided “no little business” for the silver-smiths. See TEMPLE.