Bible dictionaries

Battlement

What Bible dictionaries say about “Battlement”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Battlement - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

A parapet wall or balustrade surrounding the flat roofs of the houses, required to be built by a special law (Deut. 22:8). In Jer. 5:10, it denotes the parapet of a city wall.

Battlement - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

BAT'TLEMENT, n. [This is said to have been bastillement, from bastille, a fortification.]

A wall raised on a building with openings or embrasures, or the

embrasure itself.

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

The article in Easton + Webster 1828

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

bat'-'-l-ment.

See FORTIFICATION; HOUSE.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

The article in ISBE 1915

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

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; Jeremiah 5:10)

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

The article in Smith