Topic
Manger
9 passages cited, from 4 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Luke 2:7Easton · Smith · ISBE · Nave (A feeding box for cattle)
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
- Luke 2:12Easton · Smith · ISBE · Nave (A feeding box for cattle)
And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
- Luke 2:16Easton · Smith · ISBE · Nave (A feeding box for cattle)
And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.
- Luke 13:15Easton · ISBE · Nave Rendered “stall” in
The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?
- 2 Chronicles 32:28ISBE
Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.
- Job 39:9ISBE
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
- Proverbs 14:4ISBE
Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
- Isaiah 1:3ISBE
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
- Habakkuk 3:17ISBE
¶ Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 4 references
(Luke 2:7, 12, 16), the name (Gr. phatne, rendered “stall” in Luke 13:15) given to the place where the infant Redeemer was laid. It seems to have been a stall or crib for feeding cattle. Stables and mangers in our modern sense were in ancient times unknown in the East. The word here properly denotes “the ledge or projection in the end of the room used as a stall on which the hay or other food of the animals of travellers was placed.” (See INN.)
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 3 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 9 references
man'-jer (phatne): Properly the place in a stall or stable where the food of cattle is placed (in the Old Testament "crib" (Job 39:9; Pr 14:4; Isa 1:3)); thus also, apparently, in the narrative of the nativity in Lu 2:7,12,16. In Septuagint, the Greek word, representing different Hebrew words, has also the extended meaning of "stall" (2Ch 32:28; Hab 3:17); thus also in Lu 13:15, where the Revised Version margin has "manger." Old tradition says that Jesus was born in a cave in the neighborhood of Bethlehem; even so, a place for food for cattle may have been cut in the side of the rock.
James Orr
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.