Tile; Tiling

TILE, TILING.—The former occurs only in Eze 4:1 for ‘brick’—the usual rendering of the original. For plans of a city drawn on ‘bricks’ or ‘tablets’ of soft clay, which were afterwards baked hard, see ‘Ezekiel,’ in SBOT [Note: BOT Sacred Books of Old Testament.] , in loc. ‘Tiling’ is found only in Luk 5:19 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] , for which RV [Note: Revised Version.] has ‘through the tiles.’ St. Luke seems here to have adapted the narrative of Mk. (for which see House, § 5) to the style of roof covered with tiles (see ‘Teguia’ in Rich’s Dict. of Antiq.), with which his Western readers were more familiar; or ‘through the tiles’ is here simply synonymous with ‘through the roof’ (cf. our expression ‘on the tiles’).

A. R. S. Kennedy.

tı̄l, tı̄l´ing (לבנה, l^ebhēnāh, “brick” Eze 4:1; κέραμος, kéramos, “potter’s clay,” “a tile,” Luk 5:19). See EZEKIEL, II, 1, (2); HOUSE, II, 1, (10).