FURNITURE . In the AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ‘furniture’ is used in the general sense of furnishings, just as Bunyan speaks of ‘soldiers and their furniture’ ( Holy War , p. 112). 1. For the details of house furniture, see House, § 8 . In this sense we read also of ‘the furniture of the tabernacle’ ( Exodus 31:7 , Numbers 3:8 RV [Note: Revised Version.] , for AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ‘instruments,’ and elsewhere). For the less appropriate ‘furniture’ of the table of shewbread and of ‘the candlestick’ ( Exodus 31:8 ), RV [Note: Revised Version.] has ‘vessels.’
2. The ‘camel’s furniture’ of Genesis 31:34 was a ‘camel-palankeen’ ( Oxf. Heb. Lex . p. 1124), ‘a crated frame, with cushions and carpets inside, and protected by an awning above, fastened to the camel’s saddle’ (Driver, Genesis, in loc. ), still used by women travellers in the East.
A. R. S. Kennedy.