Dict: smith - BAT

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BAT - B>@ - kjv@Leviticus:11:19 kjv@Leviticus:14:18) Many travellers have noticed the immense numbers of bats that are found in caverns in the East, and Mr. Layard said that on the occasion of a visit to a cavern these noisome beasts compelled him to retreat.

BATH, BATHING - B>@ - This was a prescribed part of the Jewish ritual of purification in cases of accident, or of leprous or ordinary uncleanness, kjv@Leviticus:15; 16:28; 22:6; kjv@Numbers:19:7; 19; 2 Samuel 11:2-4; kjv@2Kings:5:10) as also after mourning, which always implied defilement. kjv@Ruth:3:3; 2 Samuel 12:20) The eastern climate made bathing essential alike to health and pleasure, to which luxury added the use of perfumes. kjv@Esther:2:12) Judith 10:3; Susan 17. The "pools," such as that of Siloam and Hezekiah, ( kjv@2Kings:20:20; kjv@Nehemiah:3:15-16; kjv@Isaiah:22:11; kjv@John:9:7) often sheltered by porticos, kjv@John:5:2) are the first indications we have of public bathing accommodation.

BATH - B>@ - MEASURES

BATHRABBIM - B>@ - (daughter of many), The gate of, One of the gates of the ancient city of heshbon. (Solomon kjv@7:4-5)

BATHSHEBA, OR BATHSHEBA - B>@ - (daughter of the oath), (2 Samuel 11:3) etc., also called Bath-shua in ( kjv@1Chronicles:3:5) the daughter of Eliam, (2 Samuel 11:3) or Ammiel, ( kjv@1Chronicles:3:5) the son of Ahithophel, (2 Samuel 23:34) and wife of Uriah the Hittite. (B.C. 1035.) The child which was the fruit of her adulterous intercourse with David died; but after marriage she became the mother of four sons, Solomon, kjv@Matthew:1:6) Shimea, Shobab and Nathan. When Adonijah attempted to set aside the succession promised to Solomon, Bath-sheba informed the king of the conspiracy. (Kings:1:11,15,23) After the accession of Solomon, she, as queen-mother, requested permission of her son for Adonijah to take in marriage Abishag the Shunammite. (Kings:2:21-25)

BATHSHUA - B>@ - [BATH

- SHEBA]

BATTERINGRAM - B>@ - kjv@Ezekiel:4:2 kjv@Ezekiel:21:22) a large beam with a head of iron which was sometimes made to resemble the head of a ram. It was suspended by ropes to a beam supported by posts, and balanced so as to swing backward and forward, and was impelled by men against the wall. In attacking the walls of a fort or city, the first step appears to have been to form an inclined plane or bank of earth, comp. kjv@Ezekiel:4:2) "cast a mount against it," by which the besiegers could bring their battering-rams and other engines to the foot of the walls. "The battering-rams," says Mr. Layard "were of several kinds. Some were joined to movable towers which held warriors and armed men. The whole then formed one great temporary building, the top of which is represented in sculptures as on a level with the walls, and even turrets, of the besieged city. In some bas-reliefs the battering-ram is without wheels: it was then perhaps constructed upon the spot and was not intended to be moved."

BATTLEAXE - B>@ - kjv@Jeremiah:51:20) MAUL

BATTLEMENT - B>@ - Among the Jews a battlement was required by law to be built upon every house. It consisted of a low wall built around the roofs of the houses to prevent persons from falling off, and sometimes serving as a partition from another building. (22:8; kjv@Jeremiah:5:10)