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Easton's Bible Dictionary
It was the custom of the Roman governors to erect their
tribunals in open places, as the market-place, the circus, or even the highway.
Pilate caused his seat of judgment to be set down in a place called "the Pavement"
( John 19:13 ) i.e., a place paved with a mosaic of coloured stones. It was probably
a place thus prepared in front of the "judgment hall." (See GABBATHA)
Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names
(no entry)
Smith's Bible Dictionary
[GABBATHA]
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
pav'-ment:
In the Old Testament, with the exception of 2 Kings 16:17, the Hebrew word is
ritspah (2 Chronicles 7:3 ; Esther 1:6 ; Ezekiel 40:17 , etc.); in Sirach 20:18
and Bel and the Dragon verse 19 the word is edaphos; in John 19:13, the name "The
Pavement" (lithostrotos, "paved with stone") is given to the place outside the
Pretorium on which Pilate sat to give judgment upon Jesus. Its Hebrew (Aramaic)
equivalent is declared to be GABBATHA
(which see). The identification of the place is uncertain.
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