Bible dictionaries

Chapiter

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

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Chapiter - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

The ornamental head or capital of a pillar. Three Hebrew words are so rendered. (1.) Cothereth (1 Kings 7:16; 2 Kings 25:17; 2 Chr. 4:12), meaning a "diadem" or "crown." (2.) Tzepheth (2 Chr. 3:15). (3.) Rosh (Ex. 36:38; 38:17, 19, 28), properly a "head" or "top."

Chapiter - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

CHAPITER, n.

1. The upper part or capital of a column or pillar; a word used in the scriptures. [See Capital.]

2. That which is delivered by the mouth of the justice in his charge to the inquest.

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

chap'-i-ter.

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

the capital of a pillar; i.e. the upper part, as the term is used in modern architecture.

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