Gallows

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GALLOWS.—This word occurs eight times in EV [Note: English Version.] in the Book of Esther only (Est_5:14 etc.) as the rendering of the ordinary Heb. word for ‘tree’ (see margins). It is very doubtful if death by strangulation is intended—‘tree’ in all probability having here its frequent sense of ‘pole,’ on which, as was customary in Persia, the criminal was impaled (see Crimes and Punishments, § 10).
A. R. S. Kennedy.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909

Gallows. See Punishments.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863

gal?ōz. See HANGING; PUNISHMENTS.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.

Gallows
(עֵוֹ, ets, a tree or wood), a post or gibbet, rendered in Est_6:4 "gallows," but in Gen_40:19, and Deu_21:22, "tree." Hanging appears to have been a punishment practised among the Egyptians and other ancient nations, as well as among the Hebrews. SEE PUNISHMENT.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.

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