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Easton's Bible DictionaryThe Hebrew word kebir, rendered "pillow" in 1 Samuel 19:13, 16, but in Revised Version marg. "quilt" or "network," probably means some counterpane or veil intended to protect the head of the sleeper. A different Hebrew word (meraashoth') is used for "bolster" (1 Samuel 26:7, 11, 16). It is rightly rendered in Revised Version "at his head." In Genesis 28:11, 18 the Authorized Version renders it "for his pillows," and the Revised Version "under his head." In Ezek. 13:18, 20 another Hebrew word (kesathoth) is used, properly denoting "cushions" or "pillows," as so rendered both in the Authorized and the Revised Version.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary1. (v. t.) To support, hold up, or maintain with difficulty or unusual effort; -- often with up.
2. (n.) A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support any part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.
3. (n.) Anything arranged to act as a support, as in various forms of mechanism, etc.
4. (n.) A cushioned or a piece part of a saddle.
5. (n.) A cushioned or a piece of soft wood covered with tarred canvas, placed on the trestletrees and against the mast, for the collars of the shrouds to rest on, to prevent chafing.
6. (n.) Anything used to prevent chafing.
7. (n.) A plate of iron or a mass of wood under the end of a bridge girder, to keep the girder from resting directly on the abutment.
8. (n.) A transverse bar above the axle of a wagon, on which the bed or body rests.
9. (n.) The crossbeam forming the bearing piece of the body of a railway car; the central and principal cross beam of a car truck.
10. (n.) the perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
11. (n.) That part of a knife blade which abuts upon the end of the handle.
12. (n.) The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
13. (n.) The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
14. (n.) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
International Standard Bible EncyclopediaBOLSTER
bol'-ster: Found in the King James Version only in 1 Samuel 19:13, 16, "Behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goat's hair at the head thereof" (the King James Version "for his bolster"), and 1 Samuel 26:7, 11, 12, 16, "Saul lay sleeping. with his spear stuck in the ground at his head." "Bolster" in these passages in the King James Version was used to translate a Hebrew word whose true significance is "the place of the head," or "the head-place." It will be noted that it has disappeared from the Revised Version (British and American), which rightly has throughout "head," instead of "bolster."
Strong's Hebrew7226. raashoth -- bolster
... raashoth. 7227 . bolster. Transliteration: raashoth Phonetic Spelling:
(rah-ash-oth') Short Definition: bolster. Word Origin the same as marashah, qv. ...
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ThesaurusBolster (7 Occurrences)
... A different Hebrew word (meraashoth') is used for "bolster" (1 Samuel 26:7,
11, 16). ... 15. (vt) To support with a bolster or pillow. Int. ...
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Cruse (11 Occurrences)
Bolt (5 Occurrences)
Gat (21 Occurrences)
Trench (8 Occurrences)
Reach (63 Occurrences)
Drinketh (33 Occurrences)
Bolled (1 Occurrence)
Attentively (35 Occurrences)
Bible ConcordanceBolster (7 Occurrences)
1 Samuel 19:13 And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.
1 Samuel 19:16 And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster.
1 Samuel 26:7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
1 Samuel 26:11 The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the LORD's anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that is at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go.
1 Samuel 26:12 So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the LORD was fallen upon them.
1 Samuel 26:16 This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the LORD's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.
1 Kings 19:6 and he looketh attentively, and lo, at his bolster a cake 'baken on' burning stones, and a dish of water, and he eateth, and drinketh, and turneth, and lieth down.
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