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Reference: Window

Easton

properly only an opening in a house for the admission of light and air, covered with lattice-work, which might be opened or closed (2Ki 1:2; Ac 20:9). The spies in Jericho and Paul at Damascus were let down from the windows of houses abutting on the town wall (Jos 2:15; 2Co 11:33). The clouds are metaphorically called the "windows of heaven" (Ge 7:11; Mal 3:10). The word thus rendered in Isa 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.

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Fausets

(See HOUSE.) Chalon, "aperture" with lattice work; this being opened, nothing prevented one from falling through the aperture to the ground (2Ki 1:2; Ac 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 (Jos 2:15; 2Co 11:33).

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Hastings

Morish

There are several Hebrew words so translated. Windows were openings to admit light and for ventilation; not glazed, but furnished with latticed work, through which persons could, though themselves unobserved, see what was passing outside. Some had shutters attached. There was a window in the ark Noah built, and windows in the temple; and many are to be made in the temple described by Ezekiel. Ge 6:16; 8:6; 1Ki 7:4-5; Eze 40:16-36.

In the East windows were usually made to open horizontally, which explains how a person sitting in a window could fall out. Ac 20:9. The passage in Isa 54:12, "I will make thy windows of agates'' is better translated, "I will make thy battlements, or pinnacles, of rubies." At the flood the expression the 'windows of heaven' is in the sense of the 'floodgates,' as in the margin. Ge 7:11.

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Smith

Window.

The window of an Oriental house consists generally of an aperture closed in with lattice-work.

Jg 5:28; Pr 7:6

Authorized Version "casement;"

Ec 12:3

Authorized Version "window;"

Song 2:9; Ho 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]

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