Meaning
is used of (a) "a dining table," Mat 15:27, Mar 7:28, Luk 16:21, Luk 22:21, Luk 22:30; (b) "the table of shewbread," Heb 9:2; (c) by metonymy, of "what is provided on the table" (the word being used of that with which it is associated), Act 16:34, Rom 11:9 (figurative of the special privileges granted to Israel and centering in Christ); 1Co 10:21 (twice), "the Lord's table," denoting all that is provided for believers in Christ on the ground of His death (and thus expressing something more comprehensive than the Lord's Supper); "the table of demons," denoting all that is partaken of by idolaters as the result of the influence of demons in connection with their sacrifices; (d) "a moneychanger's table," Mat 21:12, Mar 11:15, Joh 2:15; (e) "a bank," Luk 19:23 (cp. trapezites: see BANKERS); (f) by metonymy for "the distribution of money," Act 6:2. See BANK.
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primarily denotes "anything flat and broad," hence, "a flat stone, a tablet," 2Co 3:3 (twice); Heb 9:4.
Note: Some texts have the word kline, "a couch," in Mar 7:4 (AV, "tables").
