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Fringes Scripture - Numbers 15:38

Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:...

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Fruits Scripture - 2 Samuel 16:1

And when David was a little past the top [of the hill], behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred [loaves] of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine....

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Furniture in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

fur'ni-tur (kar, kelim; skeue): In Gen 31:34 kar is translated "furniture" in the King James Version, but "saddle" in the American Standard Revised Version. The latter is decidedly preferable. It was the "camel-basket," or the basket-saddle of the camel, which was a sort of palanquin bound upon the saddle. Upon this saddle-basket Rachel sat w...

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Tables Scripture - Mark 11:15

And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;...

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Floor Scripture - 1 Kings 7:7

Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, [even] the porch of judgment: and [it was] covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other....

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Fringes Scripture - Deuteronomy 22:12

Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest [thyself]....

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Fruits Scripture - Leviticus 26:20

And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits....

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Furniture Scripture - Exodus 35:14

The candlestick also for the light, and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for the light,...

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Table in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

"Table" is derived from the Latin tabula, meaning primarily "a board," but with a great variety of other significances, of which "writing-tablet" is the most important for the Biblical use of "table." So in English "table" meant at first "any surface" and, in particular, "a surface for writing," and further specialization was needed before "t...

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Table in Naves Topical Bible

1. An article of furniture Jud 1:7; 1Sa 20:29,34; 2Ki 4:10; Joh 2:15 Made of silver 1Ch 28:16 -FIGURATIVE Pr 3:3; Jer 17:1; 2Co 3:3 Of the altar Mal 1:7,12 Of the Lord's supper 1Co 10:21 Of idolatrous feasts 1Co 10:21 Of charities Ac 6:2 -2. Of shewbread See SHEWBREAD, TABLE OF -3. Of testimony Ex 31:18; 32:15; 34:29 The commandme...

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