TABLE (WWI), (Heb. 17;?, usually, shool khawn', extended).
1. The Hebrew table was probably nothing more in general than a mat, or cloth spread on the ground, as among the Arabs of to-day (Judg. i : 7; I Sam. xx :29, 34 ; I Kings ii :7; Ps. lxix :22).
2. Loo'akh (Heb. or Etclistening), a tablet whether of polished stone or wood (Exod. xxvii:8, etc., A. V. "board"), or for writing on (Is. xxx:8; Hab. ii:2; Prov. iii:3).
3. May-sab' (Heb. :;'.;), a divan, i. e., a com pany of persons seated round about a room (Cant. 1:12, A. V. "at table").
4. An-ak-i' nzahee (Gr. civaKei/Aat), to lie at table (John xiii:28) on the divan.
6. Klee'nay (Gr. KNEvn, a bed), a couch to re cline on at meals (Mark vii:41.
6. Pin-ak-idee-on (Gr. rtvaKiStop, Luke i:63) and pax (Gr.7rNg,flat), the former a small writing tablet, the latter meaning the same as 1 (2 Cor. iii:3).
7. Trafed-cak (Gr. .rpcirei'a), a table on which food is placed (Matt. xv:27; Mark vii:28; Luke xvi: 21; XXII:21, 30); the table of shewbread (Hub. ix:2); the table or stand of a money changer, where he sits, exchanging different kinds of money for a fee, and paying back with interest loans or deposits (Matt. xxi:12; Mark xi:t5; John ii:15). (Barnes, Bib. Dict.) Figurative. (I) Man's heart is represented as "a writing-table," and a "fleshly table," ready to receive, and be affected with divine truths (Prov. iii :3; vii :3 ; 2 Cor. 111:3). (2) The altar
of burnt-offering is called God's "table," because the sacrifices thereon offered were acceptable to him and were food to the hungry (Mal. 1:7, 12). (3) The ordinances of the church are likened to a table, as they exhibit to us the fullness of God for the nourishment of our soul (Ps. lxix :22; Luke xxii :30). (4) God "furnishes one's table," when he gives them prosperity, spiritual or tem poral (Ps. xxiii :5). (5) "The table of the Lord is contemptible" (Mal. i :7; comp. v :12), is what the prophets charge the priests with representing. The table of Jehovah is the altar, and they made it contemptible by offering upon it bad, blemished animals, which were unfit for sacrifices. (6) "They shall speak tics at one table" ,(Dan. xi: 27), is a figure of feigned friendship. (7) Eating at the table, especially in the presence of enemies .(Ps. xxiii;5 ; comp. Is. xxi :5), denotes a sense of security, In i Cor. x :21, (8) "Ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils," brings into sharp contrast the holy communion and the sacrifices offered to heathen deities. St. Paul seems to make the real exist enczr. answering to the heathen conception of these gods to be demons.