Gallery
Gallery an architectural term describing the porticoes or verandas which are not uncommon in Eastern houses. SEE HOUSE. It is doubtful, however, whether two of the three Hebrew words so translated have any reference to such an object. SEE ARCHITECTURE.
1. אִתַּיק, attik' (Eze 41:15 [where the text has אִתּוּק, attuk'], 16; Sept. ἀπόλοιπον; 42:3, 5, Sept. περίστυλον ; according to Gesenius, from נָתִק, to cut off; according to Fürst, from an obsolete אָתִק, to set off), by some thought to mean (as in 42:6) pillars or columns (so Villalpandus, Cocceius); by others a decrement or terrace (so Gesenius, Fürst, Hävernick, Hitzig), as the context requires (Bottcher, Proben, page 350). SEE TEMPLE. The ancient interpreters are wholly at fault; the Sept. renders ambiguously, the Talmud "corners," the Syr. "balustrade," and the Jewish interpreters confess their ignorance (Kimchi, Jarchi).
2. רָחַיט, rachit' (Song 1:17; either, with Farst, from an obsolete root רָחִט, to trim, or, with Gesenius, for רָהַיט, rahit, as in the margin), prob., panel-work or fretted ceiling (so Sept.' φατνώματα, Vulg. laquearia, A.V. "rafters," marg. "gallery"). SEE CEILING. In consequence of the var. read. in the Masoretic text (q.d. ambulatory or place of exercise), this term has been confounded with
⇒Bible concordance for GALLERIES.
3. רִהִט, ra'hat (from רָהִט,' to flow down; spoken of watering-troughs, Ge 30:38,41; Ex 2:16), curled locks or ringlets of a maiden (Song 7:6; Sept. παραδρομή, Vulg. canalis). SEE HAIR.
