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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

ter'-as (mecillah): Solomon is said, in 2Ch 9:11, to have made of the algum trees brought him from Ophir "terraces," or raised walks, for the house of Yahweh. In the parallel 1Ki 10:12, the word used is rendered "pillars," margin "`a railing'; Hebrew `a prop.'"