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What is a Pillar?
        PIL'LAR
     This word is often used metaphorically in the Bible, thus a pillar of fire, cloud, smoke, etc., denoting a fire, a cloud, or a mass of smoke in the form of a pillar. Ex 13:21; Jud 20:40. Besides, in architecture, where it was employed both as support and ornament, it was common to erect a pillar as a monument of some distinguished person or event. Gen 28:18; Gen 35:20; Josh 24:26. "The plain of the pillar," Jud 9:6, properly the "oak of the pillar," a tree near Shechem under which Abimelech was crowned.


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Schaff, Philip, Dr. "Biblical Definition for 'pillar' in Schaffs Bible Dictionary".
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