Meaning
Armory ar'-mer-i:
(1) ('otsar; thesauros): A storehouse (1Ki 7:51, Neh 10:38), but employed figuratively of the stored-up anger of Yahweh which breaks forth in judgments (Jer 50:25).
(2) (nesheq): Identical with Solomon's "house of the forest of Lebanon," the arsenal close to the temple (1Ki 10:17, Neh 3:19, Isa 22:8), in which were stored the shields and targets of beaten gold.
(3) (talpiyoth): A puzzling word rendered "armory" in our versions (So 4:4)- "the tower of David builded for an armory, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men." the Revised Version margin renders "builded with turrets."
T. Nicol.
