Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadJames Hastings Dictionary of the Bible: Plaister, Plaster
Subjects in this Topic:
PLAISTER, PLASTER.—1. See Arts and Crafts, § 4. House, § 4.
2. The ‘piaister’ (Isa_38:21; Amer. RV [Note: Revised Version.] etc., ‘piaster’) which Isaiah prescribed for Hezekiah’s boil was a fig-pouitice, according to the text of 2Ki_20:7, but the parallel passage above cited reads literaily, ‘Let them take a cake of figs and rub it upon the boll.’
A. R. S. Kennedy.