Bible dictionaries

Shambles

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

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Shambles - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

SHAM'BLES, n. [L. scamnum a bench; from L. scando.]

1. The place where butcher's meat is sold; a flesh-market.

2. In mining, a nich or shelf at suitable distances to receive the ore which is thrown from one to another, and thus raised to the top.

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

sham'-b'-lz (makellon): A slaughter-house; then a butcher's stall, meat-market. The word is once used in the New Testament in 1Co 10:25.

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