Bible dictionaries

Gutter

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

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Gutter - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

Heb. tsinnor, (2 Sam. 5:8). This Hebrew word occurs only elsewhere in Ps. 42:7 in the plural, where it is rendered "waterspouts." It denotes some passage through which water passed; a water-course.

In Gen. 30:38, 41 the Hebrew word rendered "gutters" is rahat, and denotes vessels overflowing with water for cattle (Ex. 2:16); drinking-troughs.

Gutter - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

GUT'TER, n. [L. gutta, a drop.]

1. A channel for water; a hollow piece of timber, or a pipe, for catching and conveying off the water which drops from the eaves of a building.

2. A channel or passage for water; a hollow in the earth for conveying water; and,in popular usage, a channel worn in the earth by a current of water.

GUT'TER, v.t. To cut or form into small hollows.

GUT'TER, v.i. To be hollowed or channeled.

1. To run or sweat as a candle.

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)

gut'-er.

See HOUSE.

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

The article in ISBE 1915