Roll

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ROLL.—See Writing, 6.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909

Ancient writings were rolled round a cylinder or stick. Volume means so (Jer_36:2; Psa_40:7; compare Deu_31:26; Eze_2:9-10, where the writing "within and without" was contrary to the usage of writing only on one side, implying the fullness of the prophecy of woe. The writing was in columns (delathot), literally, doors, on parchment or prepared skins.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.

Roll. A book, in ancient times, consisted of a single, long strip of paper or parchment, which was usually kept rolled upon a stick, and was unrolled when a person wished to read it. The roll was usually written on one side only, and hence, the particular notice of one that was "written within and without." Eze_2:10. The writing was arranged in columns.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863

Roll [WRITING]




The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.

(verb)

Mic_1:10 (a) This is the picture of a voluntary humbling of these people.

(noun)

Eze_3:1 (c) This parchment is a type of all the precious Word of GOD. It is to be appropriated personally, received in the heart and hidden in the mind of each person.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
press 1957.

Roll
(מְגַלָּה, megillah'; Sept. κεφαλίς: but in Ezr_6:1, the Chald. סְפִר, sephdr, a book, as elsewhere rendered: in Isa_8:1; גַּלָּיוֹן, gillayon, a tablet, once of a mirror, Isa_3:23). A book in ancient times consisted of a single long strip of paper or parchment, which was usually kept rolled up on a stick, and was unrolled when a person wished to read it. SEE BOOK. Hence arose the term megillah, from galal, “to roll,” strictly answering to the Latin volumen, whence comes our volume; hence also the expressions, “to spread” and “roll together” (in Heb. פָּרֵשׂ[2Ki_19:14] and גָּלִל [Isa_34:4]: in Gr. ἀναπτύσσειν and πτύσσειν [Luk_4:17; Luk_4:20]), instead of “to open” and “to shut” a book. The full expression for a book was “a roll of writing, “ or “a roll of a book” (Jer_36:2; Psa_40:7; Eze_2:9), but occasionally “roll” stands by itself (Zec_5:1-2; Ezr_6:2). The κεφαλίς of the Sept. originally referred to the ornamental knob (the umbilicus of the Latins) at the top of the stick or cylinder round which the roll was wound. The use of the term megillah implies, of course, the existence of a soft and pliant material: what this material was in the Old Test. period we are not informed; but, as a knife was required for its destruction (Jer_36:23), we infer that it was parchment. The roll was usually written on one side only (Mishna, Erub. 10, § 3), and hence the particular notice of one that was “written within and without” (Eze_2:10). The writing was arranged in columns, resembling a door in shape, and hence deriving their Hebrew name (דְּלָתוֹת, leaves), just as “column, “ from its resemblance to a columna, or pillar. It has been asserted that the term megillah does not occur before the 7th century B.C., being first used by Jeremiah (Hitzig, in Jer_36:2); and the conclusion has been drawn that the use of such materials as parchment was not known until that period (Ewald, Gesch. 1, 71, note; Gesenius, Thesaur. p. 289). This is to assume, perhaps too confidently, a late date for the composition of Psalms 40, and to ignore the collateral evidence arising out of the expression “roll together” used by Isaiah (Isa_34:4), and also out of the probable reference to the Pentateuch in Psa_40:7, “the roll of the book, “ a copy of which was deposited by the side of the ark (Deu_31:26). The book of Esther is specially designated by the Hebrew term Megillah. SEE MEGALLOTH.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.

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