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quarries

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Quarry  \Quar"ry\,  n.;  pl  {Quarries}.  [OE.  querre,  OF 
  cuiri['e]e,  F.  cur['e]e,  fr  cuir  hide,  leather,  fr  L. 
  corium;  the  quarry  given  to  the  dogs  being  wrapped  in  the 
  akin  of  the  beast.  See  {Cuirass}.] 
  1. 
  a  A  part  of  the  entrails  of  the  beast  taken  given  to 
  the  hounds. 
  b  A  heap  of  game  killed. 
 
  2.  The  object  of  the  chase;  the  animal  hunted  for  game; 
  especially,  the  game  hunted  with  hawks.  ``The  stone-dead 
  quarry.''  --Spenser. 
 
  The  wily  quarry  shunned  the  shock.  --Sir  W. 
  Scott. 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Quarries 
  (1.)  The  "Royal  Quarries"  (not  found  in  Scripture)  is  the  name 
  given  to  the  vast  caverns  stretching  far  underneath  the  northern 
  hill,  Bezetha  on  which  Jerusalem  is  built.  Out  of  these  mammoth 
  caverns  stones,  a  hard  lime-stone,  have  been  quarried  in  ancient 
  times  for  the  buildings  in  the  city,  and  for  the  temples  of 
  Solomon,  Zerubbabel,  and  Herod.  Huge  blocks  of  stone  are  still 
  found  in  these  caves  bearing  the  marks  of  pick  and  chisel.  The 
  general  appearance  of  the  whole  suggests  to  the  explorer  the 
  idea  that  the  Phoenician  quarrymen  have  just  suspended  their 
  work  The  supposition  that  the  polished  blocks  of  stone  for 
  Solomon's  temple  were  sent  by  Hiram  from  Lebanon  or  Tyre  is  not 
  supported  by  any  evidence  (comp.  1  Kings  5:8).  Hiram  sent  masons 
  and  stone-squarers  to  Jerusalem  to  assist  Solomon's  workmen  in 
  their  great  undertaking,  but  did  not  send  stones  to  Jerusalem, 
  where  indeed,  they  were  not  needed,  as  these  royal  quarries 
  abundantly  testify. 
 
  (2.)  The  quarries"  (Heb.  pesilim)  by  Gilgal  (Judg.  3:19), 
  from  which  Ehud  turned  back  for  the  purpose  of  carrying  out  his 
  design  to  put  Eglon  king  of  Moab  to  death,  were  probably  the 
  "graven  images"  (as  the  word  is  rendered  by  the  LXX.  and  the 
  Vulgate  and  in  the  marg.  A.V.  and  R.V.),  or  the  idol  temples  the 
  Moabites  had  erected  at  Gilgal,  where  the  children  of  Israel 
  first  encamped  after  crossing  the  Jordan.  The  Hebrew  word  is 
  rendered  "graven  images"  in  Deut.  7:25,  and  is  not  elsewhere 
  translated  "quarries."




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