Stool
in an ecclesiastical sense, is a seat for acolytes, servers, and attendant clerks in the services of the Church.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Stool
STOOL.In older English (including AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ) stool was used freely for any kind of seat (DB [Note: Dictionary of the Bible.] iv. 621); similarly the Heb. kiss includes both chairs and stools, see House, 8. In the difficult passage Exo 1:16 the word rendered stools in the sense of birth-stools (sella parturientis) must be pointed to read stones (abnyim for obnyim, both dual number), the reference being to the two stones or bricks on which a woman sat during her accouchement. This widely spread custom has been conclusively shown to have existed in ancient Egypt by Spiegelberg (gypt. Randglossen, 1925), from the realistic representation preserved in an early hieroglyphic sign for birth, confirmed by literary references.
A. R. S. Kennedy.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Stool
stool (, ‘obhnayim): It is not clear what the character and purpose of this stool were Septuagint has no reference to it). It seems to have been a chair of a peculiar sort upon which a woman reclined in parturition (Exo 1:16). The Hebrew word is in the dual number and primarily means two stones. The only other place where it occurs is Jer 18:3, where it is rendered wheels Septuagint , ep ton lthon, on the stones). In 2Ki 4:10, the word translated in the King James Version as stool (, kisse’) is in the Revised Version (British and American) more correctly translated seat. See also BIRTH-STOOL; SEAT.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Stool
General references
2Ki 4:10
Footstool, figurative:
– Of the earth
Isa 66:1; Mat 5:35; Act 7:49
– Of the temple
1Ch 28:2; Lam 2:1
– Of the sanctuary
Psa 99:5; Psa 132:7
– Of the enemies of Jesus
Psa 110:1; Mat 22:44; Mar 12:36; Luk 20:43; Act 2:35; Heb 1:13