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Ledge [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A stratum, layer or row.

2. The lowest ledge or row should be merely of stone.

3. A ridge; a prominent row; as a ledge of rocks.

4. A prominent part; a regular part rising or projecting beyond the rest.

5. A small molding.

6. A small piece of timber placed athwart ships, under the deck between the beams.

7. A long ridge of rocks near the surface of the sea.

Ledge [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.

2. A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.

3. A layer or stratum.

4. A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.

5. A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.

Ledgement [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Ledgment.

Ledger [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The principal book of accounts among merchants; the book into which the accounts of the journal are carried in a summary form. [ See Leger .]

Ledger [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A book in which a summary of accounts is laid up or preserved; the final book of record in business transactions, in which all debits and credits from the journal, etc., are placed under appropriate heads.

2. A large flat stone, esp. one laid over a tomb.

3. A horizontal piece of timber secured to the uprights and supporting floor timbers, a staircase, scaffolding, or the like. It differs from an intertie in being intended to carry weight.

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4 KJV and 8 BSB verses contain “Ledge”

Exodus 27:5

And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.

Set the grate beneath the ledge of the altar, so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar.

Exodus 38:4

And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.

He made a grate of bronze mesh for the altar under its ledge, halfway up from the bottom.

1 Kings 6:6

The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.

The bottom floor was five cubits wide, the middle floor six cubits, and the third floor seven cubits. He also placed offset ledges around the outside of the temple, so that nothing would be inserted into its walls.

1 Kings 7:28

And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges:

This was the design of the stands: They had side panels attached to uprights,

1 Kings 7:29

And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.

and on the panels between the uprights were lions, oxen, and cherubim. On the uprights was a pedestal above, and below the lions and oxen were wreaths of beveled work.

1 Kings 7:35

And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.

At the top of each stand was a circular band half a cubit high. The supports and panels were cast as a unit with the top of the stand.

1 Kings 7:36

For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.

He engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees on the surfaces of the supports and panels, wherever each had space, with wreaths all around.

Ezekiel 41:6

And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.

The side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.

Ezekiel 43:14

And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.

The space from the gutter on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide. The space from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge shall be four cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide.

Ezekiel 43:17

And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.

The ledge shall also be square, fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, with a rim of half a cubit and a gutter of a cubit all around it. The steps of the altar shall face east.”

Ezekiel 43:20

And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.

You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and all around the rim; thus you will cleanse the altar and make atonement for it.

Ezekiel 45:19

And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.

And the priest is to take some of the blood from the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the gateposts of the inner court.