{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_ebd_ebd048_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_ebd_ebd048_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_ebd_ebd048_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/ebd/ebd048.htm","summary":"Battlement A parapet wall or balustrade surrounding the flat roofs of the houses, required to be built by a special law (Deu 22:8). In Jer 5:10, it denotes the parapet of a city wall. Bay Denotes the estuary of the Dead Sea at the mouth of the Jordan (Jos 15:5; Jos 18:19), also the southern extremity of the same sea (Jos 15:2).","tags":["Biblical Names and Places","Biblical Reference","Easton's Bible Dictionary"],"text":null,"title":"Easton's Bible Dictionary","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":630}