Window @ properly only an opening in a house for the admission of light and air, covered with lattice-work, which might be opened or closed ( 2Kings:1:2; Acts:20:9). The spies in Jericho and Paul at Damascus were let down from the windows of houses abutting on the town wall Joshua:2:15; 2Corinthians:11:33). The clouds are metaphorically called the "windows of heaven" Genesis:7:11; Malachi:3:10). The word thus rendered in Isaiah:54:12 ought rather to be rendered "battlements" (LXX., "bulwarks;" R.V., "pinnacles"), or as Gesenius renders it, "notched battlements, i.e., suns or rays of the sun"= having a radiated appearance like the sun.
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