The materials used in buildings were commonly bricks, sometimes also stones (Lev. 14:40<\/span>, 42<\/span>), which were held together by cement (Jer. 43:9<\/span>) or bitumen (Gen. 11:3<\/span>). The exterior was usually whitewashed (Lev. 14:41<\/span>; Ezek. 13:10<\/span>; Matt. 23:27<\/span>). The beams were of sycamore (Isa. 9:10<\/span>), or olive-wood, or cedar (1 Kings 7:2<\/span>; Isa. 9:10<\/span>).<\/p>\n The form of Eastern dwellings differed in many respects from that of dwellings in Western lands. The larger houses were built in a quadrangle enclosing a court-yard (Luke 5:19<\/span>; 2 Sam. 17:18<\/span>; Neh. 8:16<\/span>) surrounded by galleries, which formed the guest-chamber or reception-room for visitors. The flat roof, surrounded by a low parapet, was used for many domestic and social purposes. It was reached by steps from the court. In connection with it (2 Kings 23:12<\/span>) was an upper room, used as a private chamber (2 Sam 18:33<\/span>; Dan. 6:11<\/span>), also as a bedroom (2 Kings 23:12<\/span>), a sleeping apartment for guests (2 Kings 4:10<\/span>), and as a sick-chamber (1 Kings 17:19<\/span>). The doors, sometimes of stone, swung on morticed pivots, and were generally fastened by wooden bolts. The houses of the more wealthy had a doorkeeper or a female porter (John 18:16<\/span>; Acts 12:13<\/span>). The windows generally opened into the courtyard, and were closed by a lattice (Judg. 5:28<\/span>). The interior rooms were set apart for the female portion of the household.<\/p>\n The furniture of the room (2 Kings 4:10<\/span>) consisted of a couch furnished with pillows (Amos 6:4<\/span>; Ezek. 13:20<\/span>); and besides this, chairs, a table and lanterns or lamp-stands (2 Kings 4:10<\/span>).<\/p>\n Dwellings The materials used in buildings were commonly bricks, sometimes also stones (Lev. 14:40, 42), which were held together by cement (Jer. 43:9) or bitumen (Gen. 11:3). The exterior was usually whitewashed (Lev. 14:41; Ezek. 13:10; Matt. 23:27). The beams were of sycamore (Isa. 9:10), or olive-wood, or cedar (1 Kings 7:2; Isa. 9:10). The … Continue reading “Dwellings”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"