Bible dictionaries

Tile

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

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Tile - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

TILE, n. [L. tegula; tego, to cover; Eng. to deck.]

1. A plate or piece of baked clay, used for covering the roofs of buildings.

The pins for fastening tiles are made of oak or fir.

2. In metallurgy, a small flat piece of dried earth, used to cover vessels in which metals are fused.

3. A piece of baked clay used in drains.

TILE, v.t. To cover with tiles; as, to tile a house.

1. To cover, as tiles.

The muscle, sinew and vein.

Which tile this house, will come again.

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

Tiling - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

TI'LING, ppr. Covering with tiles.

TI'LING, n. A roof covered with tiles. Luke 5.

1. Tiles in general.

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

til, til'-ing (lebhenah, "brick" Eze 4:1; keramos, "potter's clay," "a tile," Lu 5:19).

See EZEKIEL, II, 1, (2); HOUSE, II, 1, (10).

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