Bible Dictionary · C
Ceiling
The covering (1 Kgs 7:3, 1 Kgs 7:7) of the inside roof and walls of a house with planks of wood (2 Chr 3:5; Jer 22:14). Ceilings were sometimes adorned with various ornaments in stucco, gold, silver, gems, and ivory. The ceilings of the temple and of Solomon’s palace are described 1 Kgs 6:9, 1 Kgs 6:15; 1 Kgs 7:3; 2 Chr 3:5, 2 Chr 3:9.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
