KJV dictionary & concordance
Lined, panelled, or covered on the inner walls or overhead surface with wood or other finished material.
Definition sources
First occurrence: 2 Chronicles 3:5
Complete exact-word concordance
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
And the greater house hee sieled with firre tree, which he ouerlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palme trees and chaines.
That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
That saith, I will build mee a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windowes, and it is sieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
1611 marginal noteHebr. through aired.
1611 marginal noteOr, my windowes.
The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;
The doore-posts and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, ouer against the doore sieled with wood round about, and from the ground vp to the windows, & the windows were couered.
1611 marginal noteHeb. sieling of wood.
1611 marginal noteOr, and the ground vnto the windowes.
Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
Is it time for you, O yee, to dwell in your sieled houses, and this house lie waste?
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Historical English dictionary sources
Wainscotted; covered with boards or panelling.
