Bible dictionaries
Tapestry
What Bible dictionaries say about “Tapestry”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Tapestry - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
TAP'ESTRY, n. [L. tapes, tapestry.] A kind of woven hangings of wool and silk, often enriched with gold and silver, representing figures of men, animals, landscapes, _c.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
tap'-es-tri (marebhaddim, from rabhadh, "to spread"): "Carpets of tapestry" are mentioned in Pr 7:16; 31:22. We have no means of knowing just what form of weaving is here referred to.
See WEAVING.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915