Pommel

Pommel

[an old English term, derived from the French pomme, an apple, and signifying anything round, but now applied only to a part of a saddle] (גּלּה, gullah, a globular or round thing, a bowl, which it signifies in Ec 12:6; Zec 4:3), the ball or round ornament on the capital of a column (2Ch 4:12-13; "bowl," 1Ki 7:41-42). SEE COLUMN.

⇒Definition of pommel

⇒See also the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.