Window: 8 definitions

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Window means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Christianity. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. On this page you will also find search and cross-referencing tools.

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General definition (in Christianity)

Window definition and references: Properly only an opening in a house for the admission of light and air, covered with lattice-work, which might be opened or closed (2 Kings 1:2; Acts 20:9). The spies in Jericho and Paul at Damascus were let down from the windows of houses abutting on the town wall (Joshua 2:15; 2 Corinthians 11:33). The clouds are metaphorically called the “windows of heaven” (Genesis 7:11; Malachi 3:10). The word thus rendered in Isaiah 54:12 ought rather to be rendered “battlements” (Lxx., “bulwarks;” R.V., “pinnacles”), or as Gesenius renders it, “notched battlements, i.e., suns or rays of the sun”= having a radiated appearance like the sun.

Source: archive.org: Easton's Bible Dictionary

Window refers to:—The window of an Oriental house consists generally of an aperture closed in with lattice-work. (Judges 5:28; Proverbs 7:6) Authorized Version “casement;” (Ecclesiastes 12:3) Authorized Version “window;” (Song of Solomon 2:9; Hosea 13:3) Authorized Version “chimney.” Glass has been introduced into Egypt in modern times as a protection against the cold of winter, but lattice-work is still the usual, and with the poor the only, contrivance for closing the window. The windows generally look into the inner court of the house, but in every house one or more look into the street. In Egypt these outer windows generally project over the doorway. [House]

Source: archive.org: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Window definition and references: –General scriptures concerning Genesis 6:16; 26:8; Joshua 2:15,21; 1 Kings 6:4; Ezekiel 40:16-36; Acts 20:9

Source: archive.org: Nave's Topical Bible

Window refers to:—[HOUSE]

Source: archive.org: Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature

Window refers to:—(See HOUSE.) Chalon , "aperture" with lattice work; this being opened, nothing prevented one from falling through the aperture to the ground (2 Kings 1:2; Acts 20:9). Houses abutting on a town wall often had projecting windows looking into the country. From them the spies at Jericho were let down, and Paul at Damascus (Joshua 2:15; 2 Corinthians 11:33).

Source: archive.org: Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Window refers to:—See House, Â§ 7.

Source: archive.org: Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

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