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(Mark 7:4) means banqueting-couches or benches, on which the Jews reclined when at meals. This custom, along with the use of raised tables like ours, was introduced among the Jews after the Captivity. Before this they had, properly speaking, no table. That which served the purpose was a skin or piece of leather spread out on the carpeted floor. Sometimes a stool was placed in the middle of this skin. (See ABRAHAM'S BOSOM T0000055; BANQUET T0000434; MEALS T0002451.) Bibliography Information
Easton, Matthew George. M.A., D.D., "Biblical Meaning for 'tables' Eastons Bible Dictionary".
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