King James Bible Dictionary

1. An article of furniture:

General references
Judges 1:7; 1 Samuel 20:29; 1 Samuel 20:34; 2 Kings 4:10; John 2:15

Made of silver
1 Chronicles 28:16

Figurative:

Of the altar
Malachi 1:7; Malachi 1:12

Of the Lord's supper
1 Corinthians 10:21

Of idolatrous feasts
1 Corinthians 10:21

Of charities
Acts 6:2

2. Of shewbread
Shewbread, Table of

3. Of testimony:

General references
Exodus 31:18; Exodus 32:15; Exodus 34:29

The commandments engraved upon
Exodus 20:3-17; Exodus 24:12; Deuteronomy 4:13; Deuteronomy 5:4-22; Deuteronomy 9:10; Hosea 8:12

Broken
Exodus 24:12; Exodus 31:18; Exodus 32:15-19; Deuteronomy 4:13; Deuteronomy 9:9-11; Deuteronomy 9:17

A second set engraved
Exodus 34:1; Deuteronomy 10:1-4

Placed in the ark
Deuteronomy 10:5; 1 Kings 8:9; Hebrews 9:4

4. A slab on which inscriptions were made:

General references
Isaiah 30:8; Habakkuk 2:2; Luke 1:63

Figurative
Proverbs 3:3; Jeremiah 17:1; 2 Corinthians 3:3

TA'BLE, noun [Latin tabula.]

1. A flat surface of some extent, or a thing that has a flat surface; as a table of marble.

2. An article of furniture, consisting usually of a frame with a surface of boards or of marble, supported by legs, and used for a great variety of purposes, as for holding dishes of meat, for writing on, etc.

The nymph the table spread.

3. Fare or entertainment of provisions; as, he keeps a good table

4. The persons sitting at table or partaking of entertainment.

I drink to th' general joy of the whole table

5. A tablet; a surface on which any thing is written or engraved. The ten commandments were written on two tables of stone. Exodus 32:15.

Written--not on tables of stone, but on fleshly tables of the heart. 2 Corinthians 3:3.

6. A picture, or something that exhibits a view of any thing on a flat surface.

Saint Anthony has a table that hangs up to him from a poor peasant.

7. Among Christians, the table or Lord's table is the sacrament, or holy communion of the Lord's supper.

8. The altar of burnt-offering. Malachi 1:7.

9. In architecture, a smooth, simple member or ornament of various forms, most usually in that of a long square.

10. In perspective, a plain surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon. It is called also perspective plane.

11. In anatomy, a division of the cranium or skull. The cranium is composed of two tables or lamins, with a cellular structure between them, called the meditallium or diploe.

12. In the glass manufacture, a circular sheet of finished glass, usually about four feet in diameter, each weighing from ten to eleven pounds. Twelve of these are called a side or crate of glass.

13. In literature, an index; a collection of heads or principal matters contained in a book, with references to the pages where each may be found; as a table of contents.

14. A synopsis; many particulars brought into one view.

15. The palm of the hand.

Mistress of a fairer table

Hath not history nor fable.

16. Draughts; small pieces of wood shifted on squares.

We are in the world like men playing at tables.

17. In mathematics, tables are systems of numbers calculated to be ready for expediting operations; as a table of logarithms; a multiplication table

18. Astronomical tables, are computations of the motions, places and other phenomena of the planets, both primary and secondary.

19. In chimistry, a list or catalogue of substances or their properties; as a table of known acids; a table of acidifiable bases; a table of binary combinations; a table of specific gravities.

20. In general, any series of numbers formed on mathematical or other correct principles.

21. A division of the ten commandments; as the first and second tables. The first table comprehends our more immediate duties to God; the second table our more immediate duties to each other.

22. Among jewelers, a table diamond or other precious stone, is one whose upper surface is quite flat, and the sides only cut in angles.

23. A list or catalogue; as a table of stars.

Raised table in sculpture, an embossment in a frontispiece for an inscription or other ornament, supposed to be the abacus of Vitruvius.

Round table Knights of the round table are a military order instituted by Arthur, the first king of the Britons, adjective D. 516.

Twelve Tables, the laws of the Romans, so called probably, because engraved on so many tables.

To turn the tables, to change the condition or fortune of contending parties; a metaphorical expression taken from the vicissitudes of fortune in gaming.

To serve tables, to provide for the poor; or to distribute provisions for their wants. Acts 6:2.

TA'BLE, verb intransitive To board; to diet or live at the table of another. Nebuchadnezzar tabled with the beasts.

TA'BLE, verb transitive To form into a table or catalogue; as, to table fines. In England, the chirographer tables the fines of every county, and fixes a copy in some open place of the court.

1. To board; to supply with food.

2. To let one piece of timber into another by alternate scores or projections from the middle.

TA'BLE-BED, noun [table and bed.] A bed in the form of a table.

TA'BLE-BEER, noun [table and beer.] Beer for the table, or for common use; small beer.

TA'BLE-BOOK, noun [table and book.] A book on which any thing is engraved or written without ink.

Put into your table-book whatever you judge worthy.

TA'BLE-CLOTH, noun [table and cloth.] A cloth for covering a table, particularly for spreading on a table before the dishes are set for meals.

TA'BLED, participle passive Formed into a table.

TA'BLE-LAND, noun [table and land.] Elevated flat land.

TA'BLE-MAN, noun [table and man.] A man at draughts; a piece of wood.

TA'BLER, noun One who boards.

(Mark 7:4) means banqueting-couches or benches, on which the Jews reclined when at meals. This custom, along with the use of raised tables like ours, was introduced among the Jews after the Captivity. Before this they had, properly speaking, no table. That which served the purpose was a skin or piece of leather spread out on the carpeted floor. Sometimes a stool was placed in the middle of this skin. (See ABRAHAM'S BOSOM; BANQUET; MEALS.)

TA'BLES, noun plural A board used for backgammon.

Probably a string of beads worn round the neck (Exodus 35:22; Numbers 31:50). In Isaiah 3:20 the Hebrew word means a perfume-box, as it is rendered in the Revised Version.

TAB'LET, noun A small table or flat surface.

1. Something flat on which to write, paint, draw or engrave.

Through all Greece the young gentlemen learned to design on tablets of boxen wood.

The pillar'd marble, and the tablet brass.

2. A medicine in a square form. Tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.

A solid kind of electuary or confection, made of dry ingredients, usually with sugar, and formed into little flat squares; called also lozenge and troche.

TA'BLE-TALK, noun [table and talk.] Conversation at table or at meals.

He improves by the table-talk