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tabernacles” (or “booths,”
$
), and was appointed for seven days at Jerusalem from
the 15th to the 22nd Tishri (approximately October), to remind the people that their
fathers dwelt in these in the wilderness journeys. Cf. Num. 29:15-38, especially v. 35-38,
for the regulations of the eighth or “last day, the great day of the feast” (John 7:37).
Note:
For
, “to spread a tabernacle over, Rev. 7:15,
RV
, see
DWELL
, No. 9.
TABLE
1.
(
$1
, 5132) is used of (a) “a dining table,” Matt. 15:27; Mark 7:28;
Luke 16:21; 22:21, 30; (b) “the table of shewbread,” Heb. 9:2; (c) by metonymy, of
“what is provided on the table” (the word being used of that with which it is associated),
Acts 16:34; Rom. 11:9 (figurative of the special privileges granted to Israel and centering
in Christ); 1 Cor. 10:21 (twice), “the Lord’s table,” denoting all that is provided for
believers in Christ on the ground of His death (and thus expressing something more
comprehensive than the Lord’s Supper); “the table of demons,” denoting all that is
partaken of by idolaters as the result of the influence of demons in connection with their
sacrifices; (d) “a moneychanger’s table,” Matt. 21:12; Mark 11:15; John 2:15; (e) “a
bank,” Luke 19:23 (cf.
: see
BANKERS
); (f) by metonymy for “the distribution of
money,” Acts 6:2. See
BANK
.¶
2.
@
(
1
, 4109) primarily denotes “anything flat and broad,” hence, “a flat stone,
a tablet,” 2 Cor. 3:3 (twice); Heb. 9:4.¶
Note:
Some texts have the word
, “a couch,” in Mark 7:4 (
KJV
, “tables”).
TABLE (at the)
(
, 345), “to recline at a meal table,” is rendered “sat at the table”
in John 12:2,
KJV
,
RV
, “sat at meat” (some texts have
$
); “sat,” of course
does not express the actual attitude; in John 13:23,
RV
, “at the table reclining”;
KJV
,
“leaning”; in 13:28, “at the table” (
KJV
and
RV
), lit., “of (those) reclining.”
For
TABLET
see
WRITING TABLET
TACKLING
$
(
)
, 4631) denotes “gear, equipment, tackling” (of a ship), Acts 27:19.¶
TAIL
$
(
'$1
, 3769), “the tail of an animal,” occurs in Rev. 9:10 (twice), 19; 12:4.¶
TAKE
1.
(
1
, 2983), “to take, lay hold of,” besides its literal sense, e.g.,
Matt. 5:40; 26:26, 27, is used metaphorically, of fear, in “taking” hold of people, Luke
7:16,
RV
(
KJV
, “came … on”); of sin in “finding (occasion),”
RV
(
KJV
, “taking”), Rom.
7:8, 11, where sin is viewed as the corrupt source of action, an inward element using the
commandment to produce evil effects; of the power of temptation, 1 Cor. 10:13; of
“taking” an example, Jas. 5:10; of “taking” peace from the earth, Rev. 6:4; of Christ in
“taking” the form of a servant, Phil. 2:7; of “taking” rightful power (by the Lord,
hereafter), Rev. 11:17. See
ACCEPT
, No. 4.