King James Bible Dictionary

General references
2 Kings 4:10

Footstool, figurative:

Of the earth
Isaiah 66:1; Matthew 5:35; Acts 7:49

Of the temple
1 Chronicles 28:2; Lamentations 2:1

Of the sanctuary
Psalms 99:5; Psalms 132:7

Of the enemies of Jesus
Psalms 110:1; Matthew 22:44; Mark 12:36; Luke 20:43; Acts 2:35; Hebrews 1:13

STOOL, noun [G., a stool a stock, a pew, a chair, the see of a bishop. This coincides with stall and still. A stool is that which is set, or a seat.

1. A seat without a back; a little form consisting of a board with three or four legs, intended as a set for one person.

2. The seat used in evacuating the contents of the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.

3. [Latin] A sucker; a shoot from the bottom of the stem or the root of a plant.

STOOL of repentance, in Scotland, an elevated seat in the church, on which persons sit as a punishment for fornication and adultery.

STOOL, verb intransitive In agriculture, to ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

STOOL-BALL, noun [stool and ball.] A play in which balls are driven from stool to stool.