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Post

A messenger or regulated courier, appointed to carry with expedition the despatches of princes, or the letters of private persons in general, Job ix, 25; Jer. This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H0352, H0520, H5592, H7323, H5333, H8560
Hebrew
אַיִל · ʼayil

Strong’s and original-language information

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

אַיִל

H0352
Transliteration
ʼayil
Pronunciation
ah'-yil
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
187

Glosses

mighty (man), lintel, oak, post, ram, tree.

Lexicon definition

properly, strength

hence, anything strong

specifically a chief (politically)

also a ram (from his strength)

a pilaster (as a strong support)

an oak or other strong tree

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

אַמָּה

H0520
Transliteration
ʼammâh
Pronunciation
am-maw'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
247

Glosses

cubit, [phrase] hundred (by exchange for H3967 (מֵאָה)), measure, post.

Lexicon definition

properly, a mother (i.e. unit of measure, or the fore-arm (below the elbow), i.e. a cubit

also a door-base (as a bond of the entrance)

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

סַף

H5592
Transliteration
çaph
Pronunciation
saf
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
32

Glosses

bason, bowl, cup, door (post), gate, post, threshold.

Lexicon definition

a vestibule (as a limit)

also a dish (for holding blood or wine)

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

רוּץ

H7323
Transliteration
rûwts
Pronunciation
roots
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
103

Glosses

break down, divide speedily, footman, guard, bring hastily, (make) run (away, through), post.

Lexicon definition

to run (for whatever reason, especially to rush)

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נְצִיב

H5333
Transliteration
nᵉtsîyb
Pronunciation
nets-eeb'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
11

Glosses

pillar, prefect, garrison, post, garrison, officer, pillar.

Lexicon definition

something stationary, i.e. a prefect, a military post, a statue

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Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Post

(1.) A runner, or courier, for the rapid transmission of letters, etc. (2 Chr. 30:6; Esther 3:13, 15; 8:10, 14; Job 9:25; Jer. 51:31). Such messengers were used from very early times. Those employed by the Hebrew kings had a military character (1 Sam. 22:17; 2 Kings 10:25, "guard," marg. "runners"). The modern system of postal communication was first established by Louis XI. of France in A.D. 1464. (2.) This word sometimes also is used for lintel or threshold (Isa. 6:4).

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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

POST

a messenger or regulated courier, appointed to carry with expedition the despatches of princes, or the letters of private persons in general, Job ix, 25; Jer. li, 31; 2 Chron. xxx, 6; Esther iii, 13, &c. It is thought that the use of posts is derived from the Persians. Diodorus Siculus observes, that the kings of Persia, in order to have intelligence of what was passed through all the provinces of their vast dominions, placed centinels at eminences, at convenient distances, where towers were built. These centinels gave notice of public occurrences from one to another, with a very loud and shrill voice, by which news was transmitted from one extremity of the kingdom to another with great expedition. But as this could not be practised, except in the case of general news, which it was expedient that the whole nation should be acquainted with, Cyrus, as Xenophon relates, appointed couriers and places for post horses, building on purpose on all the high roads houses for the reception of the couriers, where they were to deliver their packets to the next, and so on. This they did night and day, so that no inclemency of weather was to stop them; and they are represented as moving with astonishing speed. In the judgment of many they went faster than cranes could fly. Herodotus owns, that nothing swifter was known for a journey by land. Xerxes, in his famous expedition against Greece, planted posts from the Ægean Sea to Shushan, or Susa, to send notice thither of what might happen to his army; he placed these messengers from station to station, to convey his packets, at such distances from each other as a horse might easily travel.

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Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Post

Indexed occurrences: 6

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Strong's Concordance

Posts

Indexed occurrences: 45

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All Scripture references71 references

Genesis 1

Genesis 19:26

Exodus 24

Exodus 26:32Exodus 26:37Exodus 27:10Exodus 27:11Exodus 27:12Exodus 27:14Exodus 27:15Exodus 27:16Exodus 27:17Exodus 35:11Exodus 35:17Exodus 36:36Exodus 36:38Exodus 38:10Exodus 38:11Exodus 38:12Exodus 38:14Exodus 38:15Exodus 38:17Exodus 38:19Exodus 38:28Exodus 39:33Exodus 39:40Exodus 40:18

Numbers 4

Numbers 3:36Numbers 3:37Numbers 4:31Numbers 4:32

Deuteronomy 2

Deuteronomy 6:9Deuteronomy 11:20

Joshua 1

Joshua 10:18

Judges 1

Judges 4:5

1 Samuel 3

1 Samuel 10:51 Samuel 13:31 Samuel 13:4

2 Samuel 2

2 Samuel 8:62 Samuel 8:14

1 Kings 2

1 Kings 4:191 Kings 6:38

2 Kings 2

2 Kings 10:252 Kings 22:14

1 Chronicles 2

1 Chronicles 11:161 Chronicles 18:13

2 Chronicles 3

2 Chronicles 7:62 Chronicles 17:22 Chronicles 30:16

Ezra 3

Ezra 2:58Ezra 2:70Ezra 8:20

Nehemiah 2

Nehemiah 7:3Nehemiah 13:11

Esther 2

Esther 3:13Esther 6:4

Job 1

Job 9:25

Proverbs 3

Proverbs 8:34Proverbs 20:16Proverbs 27:13

Ecclesiastes 1

Ecclesiastes 10:4

Isaiah 2

Isaiah 21:6Isaiah 21:8

Jeremiah 2

Jeremiah 51:12Jeremiah 51:31

Amos 1

Amos 9:1

Habakkuk 1

Habakkuk 2:1

Luke 2

Luke 19:1Luke 19:12

John 1

John 8:35

Acts 3

Acts 6:14Acts 10:28Acts 13:39

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POST

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College

Heb. mishneh (2 Kings 22:14; 2 Chr. 34:22), rendered in Revised Version "second quarter", the residence of the prophetess Huldah. The Authorized Version followed the Jewish commentators, who, following the Targum, gave the Hebrew word its post-Biblical sense, as if it meant a place of instruction. It properly means the "second," and may therefore denote the lower city (Acra), which was built after the portion of the city on Mount Zion, and was enclosed by a second wall.

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Door-posts

The Jews were commanded to write the divine name on the posts (mezuzoth') of their doors (Deut. 6:9). The Jews, misunderstanding this injunction, adopted the custom of writing on a slip of parchment these verses (Deut. 6:4-9, and 11:13-21), which they enclosed in a reed or cylinder and fixed on the right-hand door-post of every room in the house.

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Gallows

Heb. ets, meaning "a tree" (Esther 6:4), a post or gibbet. In Gen. 40:19 and Deut. 21:22 the word is rendered "tree."

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Garrison

(1.) Heb. matstsab, a station; a place where one stands (1 Sam. 14:12); a military or fortified post (1 Sam. 13:23; 14:1, 4, 6, etc.). (2.) Heb. netsib, a prefect, superintendent; hence a military post (1 Sam. 10:5; 13:3, 4; 2 Sam. 8:6). This word has also been explained to denote a pillar set up to mark the Philistine conquest, or an officer appointed to collect taxes; but the idea of a military post seems to be the correct one. (3.) Heb. matstsebah, properly a monumental column; improperly rendered pl. "garrisons" in Ezek. 26:11; correctly in Revised Version "pillars," marg. "obelisks," probably an idolatrous image.

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Lintel

(1.) Heb. mashkoph, a projecting cover (Ex. 12:22, 23; ver. 7, "upper door post," but R.V. "lintel"); the head-piece of a door, which the Israelites were commanded to mark with the blood of the paschal lamb. (2.) Heb. kaphtar. Amos 9:1; Zeph. 2:14 (R.V. correctly "chapiters," as in A.V. marg.).

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Marcheshvan

The post-biblical name of the month which was the eighth of the sacred and the second of the civil year of the Jews. It began with the new moon of our November. It is once called Bul (1 Kings 6:38). Assyrian, Arah Samna, "eighth month,"

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Nethinim

The name given to the hereditary temple servants in all the post-Exilian books of Scripture. The word means given, i.e., "those set apart", viz., to the menial work of the sanctuary for the Levites. The name occurs seventeen times, and in each case in the Authorized Version incorrectly terminates in "s", "Nethinims;" in the Revised Version, correctly without the "s" (Ezra 2:70; 7:7, 24; 8:20, etc.). The tradition is that the Gibeonites (Josh. 9:27) were the original caste, afterwards called Nethinim. Their numbers were added to afterwards from captives taken in battle; and they were formally given by David to the Levites (Ezra 8:20), and so were called Nethinim, i.e., the given ones, given to the Levites to be their servants. Only 612 Nethinim returned from Babylon (Ezra 2:58; 8:20). They were under the control of a chief from among themselves (2:43; Neh. 7:46). No reference to them appears in the New Testament, because it is probable that they became merged in the general body of the Jewish people.

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Post

(1.) A runner, or courier, for the rapid transmission of letters, etc. (2 Chr. 30:6; Esther 3:13, 15; 8:10, 14; Job 9:25; Jer. 51:31). Such messengers were used from very early times. Those employed by the Hebrew kings had a military character (1 Sam. 22:17; 2 Kings 10:25, "guard," marg. "runners"). The modern system of postal communication was first established by Louis XI. of France in A.D. 1464. (2.) This word sometimes also is used for lintel or threshold (Isa. 6:4).

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Proportion of faith

(Rom. 12:6). Paul says here that each one was to exercise his gift of prophecy, i.e., of teaching, "according to the proportion of faith." The meaning is, that the utterances of the "prophet" were not to fluctuate according to his own impulses or independent thoughts, but were to be adjusted to the truth revealed to him as a beliver, i.e., were to be in accordance with it. In post-Reformation times this phrase was used as meaning that all Scripture was to be interpreted with reference to all other Scripture, i.e., that no words or expressions were to be isolated or interpreted in a way contrary to its general teaching. This was also called the "analogy of faith."

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Shimron

Watch-post, an ancient city of the Canaanites; with its villages, allotted to Zebulun (Josh. 19:15); now probably Semunieh, on the northern edge of the plain of Esdraelon, 5 miles west of Nazareth.

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Threshold

(1.) Heb. miphtan, probably a projecting beam at a higher point than the threshold proper (1 Sam. 5:4, 5; Ezek. 9:3; 10:4, 18; 46:2; 47:1); also rendered "door" and "door-post." (2.) Asuppim, pl. (Neh. 12:25), rendered correctly "storehouses" in the Revised Version. In 1 Chr. 26:15, 17 the Authorized Version retains the word as a proper name, while in the Revised Version it is translated "storehouses."

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Zacchaeus

Pure, a superintendant of customs; a chief tax-gather (publicanus) at Jericho (Luke 19:1-10). "The collection of customs at Jericho, which at this time produced and exported a considerable quantity of balsam, was undoubtedly an important post, and would account for Zacchaeus being a rich man." Being short of stature, he hastened on before the multitude who were thronging about Christ as he passed through Jericho on his way to Jerusalem, and climbed up a sycamore tree that he might be able to see him. When our Lord reached the spot he looked up to the publican among the branches, and addressing him by name, told him to make haste and come down, as he intended that day to abide at his house. This led to the remarkable interview recorded by the evangelist, and to the striking parable of the ten pounds (Luke 19:12-27). At Er-riha (Jericho) there is a large, venerable looking square tower, which goes by the traditional name of the House of Zacchaeus.

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Zuzims

the posts of a door; splendor; beauty

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