Topic
Fold; Folding
6 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- 1 Kings 6:34ISBE
And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
- Psalms 102:26ISBE
They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
- Proverbs 6:10ISBE
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
- Ecclesiastes 4:5ISBE
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
- Nahum 1:10ISBE
For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
- Hebrews 1:12ISBE
And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 6 references
fold fold'-ing (verb; chabhaq, sabhakh; helisso):
The verb occurs only 3 times in the King James Version, and in each instance represents a different word; we have chabhaq "to clasp" (Ec 4:5), "The fool foldeth his hands together" (compare Pr 6:10); cabhak, "to interweave" (Na 1:10, "folded together as thorns," the English Revised Version "like tangled thorns" the American Standard Revised Version "entangled like thorns"; see ENTANGLE); helisso "to roll or fold up" (Heb 1:12, quoted from Ps 102:26 (Septuagint), the Revised Version (British and American) "As a mantle shalt thou roll them up"). Folding occurs as translation of galil, "turning" or "rolling" (1Ki 6:34 bis, folding leaves of door).
See also HOUSE.
W. L. Walker
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.