Stools
Bible Usage:
- Bible Reference: Exodus 1:16
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H70 Used 1 time
General references
2 Kings 4:10
Footstool, figurative:
Of the earth
Isaiah 66:1; Matthew 5:35; Acts 7:49
Of the temple
1 Chronicles 28:2; Lamentations 2:1
Of the sanctuary
Psalms 99:5; Psalms 132:7
Of the enemies of Jesus
Psalms 110:1; Matthew 22:44; Mark 12:36; Luke 20:43; Acts 2:35; Hebrews 1:13
STOOL, noun [G., a stool a stock, a pew, a chair, the see of a bishop. This coincides with stall and still. A stool is that which is set, or a seat.
1. A seat without a back; a little form consisting of a board with three or four legs, intended as a set for one person.
2. The seat used in evacuating the contents of the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.
3. [Latin] A sucker; a shoot from the bottom of the stem or the root of a plant.
STOOL of repentance, in Scotland, an elevated seat in the church, on which persons sit as a punishment for fornication and adultery.
STOOL, verb intransitive In agriculture, to ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
STOOL-BALL, noun [stool and ball.] A play in which balls are driven from stool to stool.