Bible Encyclopedia: Mortars

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Jesus Works his First Miracle at Cana in Galilee.
... The room is a rude chapel, and at one side stand two old stone mortars, one holding
about eight gallons and the other about ten, now used for immersing infants ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/xxii jesus works his first.htm

Waiting Only Upon God
... For several nights before the surrender, the darkness was ushered in with a tremendous
roar of guns and mortars, accompanied by the whizzing of those ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 3 1857/waiting only upon god.htm

Storming the Battlements
... Fire your shells at it: send against it all the hot cannon balls that any of the
ten great mortars of the commandments can fire, and you cannot move it in the ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 1 1855/storming the battlements.htm

The First Theban Empire
... direction of the lodes to a depth of fifty-five to sixty-five yards; the masses
of quartz procured from them were broken up in granite mortars, pounded small ...
/.../chapter iiithe first theban empire.htm

Thesaurus

Mortars (1 Occurrence)
... Multi-Version Concordance Mortars (1 Occurrence). Numbers 11:8 The people
went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat ...
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Mortar (16 Occurrences)
...Mortars were used in the wilderness for pounding the manna (Numbers 11:8). It is
commonly used in Palestine at the present day to pound wheat, from which the ...
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Morter (7 Occurrences)

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Oil-cakes (1 Occurrence)
... Numbers 11:8 The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it with hand-mills,
or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it; and the ...
/o/oil-cakes.htm - 6k

Grind (12 Occurrences)
... (WEY). Numbers 11:8 The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills,
or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. ...
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Gomer (7 Occurrences)
... See Homer. 2. (n.) A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy ordnance,
especially in mortars; -- named after the inventor. Int. ...
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Tasted (18 Occurrences)
... Numbers 11:8 The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or
beat it in mortars, and seethed it in pots, and made cakes of it; and the taste ...
/t/tasted.htm - 11k

Mills (1 Occurrence)
... Numbers 11:8 The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat
it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. ...
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Pots (30 Occurrences)
... Numbers 11:8 The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat
it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. ...
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Boiled (15 Occurrences)
... Numbers 11:8 The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat
it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. ...
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Bible Concordance

Mortars (1 Occurrence)

Numbers 11:8 The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY RSV)

Subtopics

Mortars

Related Terms

Mortar (16 Occurrences)

Morter (7 Occurrences)

Oil-cakes (1 Occurrence)

Grind (12 Occurrences)

Gomer (7 Occurrences)

Tasted (18 Occurrences)

Mills (1 Occurrence)

Pots (30 Occurrences)

Boiled (15 Occurrences)