Reference: Gallows
Easton
Heb 'ets, meaning "a tree" (Es 6:4), a post or gibbet. In Ge 40:19; De 21:22 the word is rendered "tree."
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Hastings
This word occurs eight times in English Version in the Book of Esther only (Es 5:14 etc.) as the rendering of the ordinary Heb. word for 'tree' (see margins). It is very doubtful if death by strangulation is intended
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Morish
The word is ets, frequently translated 'tree' and 'wood,' and gives no idea of the form of the gallows. It was some frame-work made or erected on which Mordecai was to have been hanged. Haman no doubt intended by the great height of the gallows (about 23 yards) that the hanging of his victim should have been well seen in the city. It was seen from the palace, and, under the providence of God, he was himself hanged thereon. Esther 5
Smith
Gallows.
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