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Easton's Bible Dictionary

A holy place or sanctuary, occurs only in Amos 7:13, where one of the idol priests calls Bethel "the king's chapel."

Noah Webster's Dictionary

1. (n.) A subordinate place of worship

2. (n.) a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial

3. (n.) a small building attached to a church

4. (n.) a room or recess in a church, containing an altar.

5. (n.) A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.

6. (n.) In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.

7. (n.) A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

8. (n.) A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

9. (n.) An association of workmen in a printing office.

10. (v. t.) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.

11. (v. t.) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.

Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia

CHAPEL

chap'-el (miqdash, "a holy place"; the Revised Version (British and American) SANCTUARY, which see): "It is the king's chapel" (Amos 7:13 the King James Version), an expression indicative of the dependence of this sanctuary on the court.

Multi-Version Concordance

Chapel (1 Occurrence)

Amos 7:13 But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court. (KJV WBS)




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