Bible dictionaries

Scaffold

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

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Scaffold - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

SCAF'FOLD, n. [The last syllable is the L. fala.]

1. Among builders, an assemblage or structure of timbers, boards or planks, erected by the wall of a building to support the workmen.

2. A temporary gallery or stage raised either for shows or spectators.

3. A stage or elevated platform for the execution of a criminal.

SCAF'FOLD, v.t. To furnish with a scaffold; to sustain; to uphold.

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

skaf'-old (kiyyor): The English word is used once of Solomon's "brazen scaffold" on which he knelt at the dedication of the temple (2Ch 6:13).

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