houstop. See HOUSE.<\/p>\n
akin to demo, “to build,” denotes a housetop. The housetop was flat, and guarded by a low parapet wall (see Deu 22:8<\/span>). It was much frequented and used for various purposes, e.g., for proclamations, Mat 10:27<\/span>; Luk 12:3<\/span>; for prayer, Act 10:9<\/span>. The house was often built round a court, across the top of which cords were fixed from the parapet walls for supporting a covering from the heat. The housetop could be reached by stairs outside the building; the paralytic in Luk 5:19<\/span> could be let down into the court or area by rolling back the covering. External flight from the housetop in time or danger is enjoined in Mat 24:17<\/span>; Mar 13:15<\/span>; Luk 17:31<\/span>. <\/p>\n Housetop houstop. See HOUSE. Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia Housetop akin to demo, “to build,” denotes a housetop. The housetop was flat, and guarded by a low parapet wall (see Deu 22:8). It was much frequented and used for various purposes, e.g., for proclamations, Mat 10:27; Luk 12:3; for prayer, Act 10:9. The house was … Continue reading “Housetop”<\/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-55599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55599","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=55599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"