LILY WORK OW, wfirk), (Heb. shoo shan', lily; 71'M, mah-as-th', work), part of the ornamentation of the two pillars which were erected (2 Chron. iii.15), before the temple (comp. Kings vii:t9, 22). (See TEN1PLE.) LIME (lim), (Heb. seed), a material named only three times in the Bible (Deut. xxvii:2, 4 ; Is. xxxiii :12; Amos ii :1). It is probable that the Jews learned the use of the lime-kiln and lime front the Egyptians.
LINE (lin). One Greek and several Hebrew words are thus rendered. The term is used vari ously in the Scriptures. It denotes: 1. A cord or instrument to measure and adjust things by (r Kings vii:15; Is. xxxiv :17; 2 Sam. viii :2).
2. A province or course of motion (Ps. xix: 4). Thus the apostles' line or voice went to the ends of the earth (Rom. x:18) ; and to boast in another man's line, was to go where he had la bored, and pretend to have done the work accom plished by him (2 Cor. x:16).
3. A portion, which is as it were measured out by lines (Ps. xvi :6).
4. A short instruction, that might be as it were written in one line (Is. xxviii :to).
Figuratitle. (t) The word of God is a measuring line; as our whole conduct, and all the forms and ordinances of the church, must be ad justed thereby (Ezek. x1:3). (2) In a promise the stretching out of the line 141,01t a place, im ports the measuring of the ground to build houses on it (Jer. xxxi :39; Zech. i :16, and ii:t). (3) But to stretch the line of confusion and stones of emptiness on a place, is to render it altogether waste (Is. xxxiv :1 1, 17). (4) Judgments laid on according to men's deserts, and which lay cities razed on the ground, are called a line (Lam. ii: 8). (5) The line of Samaria, and plummet of the house of Ahab, is such ruin as Samaria and the family of Ahab met with (2 Kings xxi :13). (6) To lay judgment to the line, and righteous ness to the plummet,is to punish people according to the due desert of their deeds (Is. xxviii :17).