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The instruments used in building are mentioned as the plumb-line (Amos 7:7), the measuring-reed (Ezekiel 40:3), and the saw (1 Kings 7:9).
Believers are “God’s building” (1 Corinthians 3:9); and heaven is called “a building of God” (2 Corinthians 5:1). Christ is the only foundation of his church (1 Corinthians 3:10-12), of which he also is the builder (Matthew 16:18).
•BUL rainy, the eighth ecclesiastical month of the year (1 Kings 6:38), and the second month of the civil year; later called Marchesvan (q.v.). (See MONTH.)
•BULLOCK (1.) The translation of a word which is a generic name for horned cattle (Isaiah 65:25). It is also rendered “cow” (Ezekiel 4:15), “ox” (Genesis 12:16).
(2.) The translation of a word always meaning an animal of the ox kind, without distinction of age or sex (Hos. 12:11). It is rendered “cow” (Numbers 18:17) and “ox” (Leviticus 17:3).
(3.) Another word is rendered in the same way (Jeremiah 31:18). It is also translated “calf” (Leviticus 9:3; Micah 6:6). It is the same word used of the “molten calf” (Exodus 32:4, 8) and “the golden calf” (1 Kings 12:28).
(4.) In Judges 6:25; Isaiah 34:7, the Hebrew word is different. It is the customary word for bulls offered in sacrifice. In Hos. 14:2, the Authorized Version has “calves,” the Revised Version “bullocks.”
•BULRUSH (1.) In Isaiah 58:5 the rendering of a word which denotes “belonging to a marsh,” from the nature of the soil in which it grows