Dict: easton - Post

Post @

(1.) A runner, or courier, for the rapid transmission of letters, etc. ( kjv@2Chronicals:30:6; kjv@Esther:3:13-15 kjv@Esther:8:10 kjv@Esther:8:14; kjv@Job:9:25; kjv@Jeremiah:51:31). Such messengers were used from very early times. Those employed by the Hebrew kings had a military character ( kjv@1Samuel:22:17; kjv@2Kings:10:25, "guard," marg. "runners"). The modern system of postal communication was first established by Louis XI. of France in A.D. 1464.

(2.) This word sometimes also is used for lintel or threshold kjv@Isaiah:6:4).