Topic
Post
18 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.
- Job 9:25Easton · Smith · ISBE · Nave A bearer of a message
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
- 2 Chronicles 30:6Easton · ISBE · Nave Of Hezekiah
So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to…
- Esther 3:13Easton · ISBE · Nave Of Ahasuerus
And the letters were sent by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar,…
- Esther 3:15Easton · ISBE · Nave Of Ahasuerus
The posts went out, being hastened by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.
- Esther 8:10Easton · ISBE · Nave Of Ahasuerus
And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus’ name, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:
- Esther 8:14Easton · ISBE · Nave Of Ahasuerus
So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace.
- Jeremiah 51:31Easton · ISBE · Nave A bearer of a message
One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
- 1 Samuel 22:17Easton · ISBE
¶ And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their…
- 2 Chronicles 30:10ISBE · Nave Of Hezekiah
So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
- 1 Kings 6:33Smith
So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.
- 1 Kings 14:27ISBE
And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king’s house.
- 2 Kings 10:25Easton
And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains…
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- 2 Kings 11:4 ISBE
- 2 Kings 11:13 ISBE
- Isaiah 6:4 Easton
- Wisdom of Solomon 5:9 ISBE
- Matthew 5:41 ISBE
- Mark 15:21 ISBE
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 10 references
(1.) A runner, or courier, for the rapid transmission of letters, etc. (2 Chr. 30:6; Esther 3:13, 15; 8:10, 14; Job 9:25; Jer. 51:31). Such messengers were used from very early times. Those employed by the Hebrew kings had a military character (1 Sam. 22:17; 2 Kings 10:25, “guard,” marg. “runners”). The modern system of postal communication was first established by Louis XI. of France in A.D. 1464.
(2.) This word sometimes also is used for lintel or threshold (Isa. 6:4).
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 2 references
- Probably, as Gesenius argues, the door-case of a door, including the lintel and side posts. The posts of the doors of the temple were of olive wood. (1 Kings 6:33)
- A courier or carrier of messages, used among other places in (Job 9:25)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 15 references
post (ruts, "to run," ratsim, "runners"): The "runners" formed the royal guard (1Sa 22:17; 1Ki 14:27; 2Ki 11:4,13; see GUARD). From them were chosen the couriers who carried royal letters and dispatches throughout the kingdom (2Ch 30:6,10; Es 3:13,15; Jer 51:31). In the Persian service they were mounted on the swiftest horses (Es 8:10,14; compare Xenophon, Cyrop. viii.6,17; Herodotus viii.98). They had the right to command the service of either men or animals in order to expedite their progress (compare Mt 5:41; Mr 15:21, "compel," "impress").
Used in Job 9:25 and the King James Version The Wisdom of Solomon 5:9 (aggelia, the Revised Version (British and American) "message") of the swift passage of time.
See also HOUSE, II, 1, (4), (7).
M. O. Evans
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.