Stool

Stool [NAVE]

STOOL,
2 Kin. 4:10.
Footstool
Figurative: Of the earth, Isa. 66:1; Matt. 5:35; Acts 7:49; temple, 1 Chr. 28:2; Lam. 2:1; sanctuary, Psa. 99:5; 132:7; enemies of Jesus, Psa. 110:1; Matt. 22:44; Mark 12:36; Luke 20:43; Acts 2:35; Heb. 1:13.

STOOL [ISBE]

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 (Ex 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 epi ton lithon, "on the stones"). In 2 Ki 4:10, the word translated in the King James Version as "stool" (kicce') is in the Revised Version (British and American) more correctly translated "seat."

See also BIRTH-STOOL; SEAT.

Jesse L. Cotton