Pulpit

Pulpit - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

(Neh. 8:4). (See [512]EZRA.)

Pulpit - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

PUL'PIT, n. [L. pulpitum, a state, scaffold, or higher part of a stage.]

1. An elevated place or inclosed stage in a church, in which the preacher stands. It is called also a desk.

2. In the Roman theater, the pulpitum was the place where the players performed their parts, lower than the scene and higher than the orchestra.

3. A movable desk, from which disputants pronounced their dissertations, and authors recited their works.

pool'-pit: Ne 8:4, "Ezra the scribe stood upon a mighdol of wood." Mighdol is one of the commonest words in the Old Testament and means simply a high object--here a scaffolding or platform (bema, 1 Esdras 9:42). "Tower" (so the Revised Version margin) gives an entirely wrong picture.