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Easton's Bible Dictionary

Probably a string of beads worn round the neck (Exodus 35:22; Numbers 31:50). In Isaiah 3:20 the Hebrew word means a perfume-box, as it is rendered in the Revised Version.

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) A small table or flat surface.

2. (n.) A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.

3. (n.) Hence, a small picture; a miniature.

4. (n.) A kind of pocket memorandum book.

5. (n.) A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.

6. (n.) A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.


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