Reference: Beam
Easton
occurs in the Authorized Version as the rendering of various Hebrew words. In 1Sa 17:7, it means a weaver's frame or principal beam; in Hab 2:11, a crossbeam or girder; 2Ki 6:2,5, a cross-piece or rafter of a house; 1Ki 7:6, an architectural ornament as a projecting step or moulding; Eze 41:25, a thick plank. In the New Testament the word occurs only in Mt 7:3-4,5, and Lu 6:41-42, where it means (Gr. dokos) a large piece of wood used for building purposes, as contrasted with "mote" (Gr. karphos), a small piece or mere splinter. "Mote" and "beam" became proverbial for little and great faults.
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And the shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam. And his spearhead weighed six hundred sicles of iron. And one bearing a shield went before him.
And he made a porch of pillars fifty cubits long and thirty cubits broad: and yet a porch before that with pillars, and a thick pillar before that.
Let us there take every man a beam and build us a place there, to dwell in." And he said, "Go ye."
And as one was heaving of a beam, the axe head fell into the water. And he cried out and said, "Alas, master, for it was lent me."
And upon the doors of the temple there were made Cherubims and date trees, like as upon the walls: and a great thick balk of wood was before on the outside of the porch.
so that the very stones of the wall shall cry out of it, and the timber that lieth betwixt the joints of the building shall answer.
Why seest thou a mote in thy brother's eye, and perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or why sayest thou to thy brother, 'Suffer me to pluck out the mote out of thine eye'; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye. read more. "Hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to pluck out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Why seest thou a mote in thy brother's eye, and considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Either, how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye: when thou perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Hypocrite, cast out the beam out of thine own eye first, and then shalt thou see perfectly, to pull out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Hastings
1. A tree roughly trimmed serving as support of the flat roof of an Eastern house (2Ki 6:2,5; Ezr 6:11 RV, Mt 7:3 ff., Lu 6:41 f.), or more elaborately dressed (2Ch 34:11 RV, Song 1:17) and gilded (2Ch 3:7). See House, Mote. 2. The weaver's beam (see Spinning and Weaving). 3. See Balance.
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Let us there take every man a beam and build us a place there, to dwell in." And he said, "Go ye."
And as one was heaving of a beam, the axe head fell into the water. And he cried out and said, "Alas, master, for it was lent me."
And he overlaid the house, both beams, posts, walls and doors, with gold; and graved Cherubs upon the walls.
and to masons and carpenters to buy hewed stone and timber for to make couples and beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed:
This commandment have I given. And what man soever he be that altereth these words, there shall a beam be taken from his house, and set up, and he shall be hanged thereon, and his house shall be made a dunghill for the deed.
Why seest thou a mote in thy brother's eye, and perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Why seest thou a mote in thy brother's eye, and considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?