STALL.See Manger.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
stōl ((1) מרבּק, marbēḳ, literally,, ?a place for tying up? (Amo_6:4; Mal_4:2), (2) אבס, 'ābhaṣ, ?to give fodder? (Pro_15:17), (3) ארוה, 'urvāh, ?to pluck and feed? (1Ki_4:26; 2Ch_9:25; 2Ch_32:28), (4) רפת, repheth, ?a resting place? (Hab_3:17); (5) φάτνη, phátnē, ?a manger? or ?crib? (Luk_13:15; compare אבוּס, 'ēbhūṣ, translated ?crib? in Isa_1:3; Pro_14:4)): During the season when cattle are not being used they are allowed to roam in the fields. Otherwise they are tied in rooms in the winter time, or under shelters made of green boughs in the summer, and all their food brought to them. Horses and cattle alike are haltered and the chains fastened through holes made in stones projecting from the walls. No stanchions and no separating partitions between animals are used. The horses are usually hobbled as well.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
(מָרְבֵּק, marbek, a stable for cattle, Amo_6:4; Mal_4:2; fat, 1Sa_28:24; fatted, Jer_46:21; אַרַוָה, urvah, or אֻרְיָה, uryah, a crib, 2Ch_32:33, or a span, 1Ki_4:26; 2Ch_9:25; רֵפֵת, repheth, a rack for fodder, Heb_3:17; φάτνη, Luk_2:13, a manger, as elsewhere rendered; stalled is אָבוּס, crammed, Pro_15:17; fatted, 1Ki_4:23). Among the ancient Egyptians the stables for horses were in the center of the villa; but the farmyard, where the cattle were kept, stood at some distance. from the house, like the Roman rustica. It consisted of two parts the sheds for housing the cattle, which stood at the upper end, and the yard, where rows of rings were fixed in order to tie them while feeding in the day time (Wilkinson, Ancient Egypt. 1, 30). SEE HORSE.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.