1. (n.) A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal vestments and sacred utensils are sometimes kept, and where meetings for worship or parish business are held; a sacristy; -- formerly called revestiary.

2. (n.) A parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; -- so called because usually held in a vestry.

3. (n.) A body, composed of wardens and vestrymen, chosen annually by a parish to manage its temporal concerns.

VESTRY

ves'-tri (meltachah): Once, in 2 Kings 10:22, as a place for vestments.

4458. meltachah -- probably wardrobe, wearing apparel
... vestry. From an unused root meaning to spread out; a wardrobe (ie Room where clothing
is spread) -- vestry. 4457, 4458. meltachah. 4459 . Strong's Numbers.
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Index.
... INDEX. TO THE DIRECTIONS TO CHURCH-WARDENS. ABSENTEES, bound by majority at vestry,
32., 33, 49. ... Memorandums. of resolutions at vestry, 33, and 49, in not. ...
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Hymns for the Use of the People Called Methodists
... Under the rostrum was the vestry, and through a trap door in the rostrum
floor the preacher climbed from the vestry to his place. ...
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"Offer it Now unto Thy Governor. " Malachi i. 8
... Look into this vestry! ... His work is to speak to large audiences, and he would be
very much offended if the vestry were prepared for his service. ...
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Footnotes:
... The old brass plate, now preserved in the vestry of St. Peter's, Cornhill,
is 'the old one revived': except in some of the details ...
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What are Evidences of Backsliding in Heart.
... We had been holding a meeting with inquirers in the vestry, and I had just dismissed
the inquirers, when this young lady came to me in great agitation and ...
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The Backslider in Heart.
... We had been holding a meeting with inquirers in the vestry, and I had just dismissed
the inquirers, when this young lady, came to me in great agitation, and ...
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The Founding of Herrnhut, 1722-1727.
... The Count's family pew in the Church was a small gallery or raised box over the
vestry; the box had a trap-door in the floor; the pastor, according to Lutheran ...
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Acknowledgments
... duty of expressing my thanks to Mr. Charles P. Taft, the Junior Warden of Christ
Church, Cincinnati, for writing the foreword; to the Vestry of Trinity Church ...
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A Foreword
... He asked me to serve on the Vestry, and somehow made me feel that nothing
except being really sick was an excuse for not being there. ...
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The Converted Infidel
... Among the many children who knelt as penitents at the altar in the little vestry,
one bright beautiful Lord's Day, were Sarah Lowe and her brother and sister. ...
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Vestry (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (n.) A parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs;
-- so called because usually held in a vestry. ...VESTRY. ...
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Vestments (3 Occurrences)
... (See JPS). 2 Kings 10:22 And he said unto him that was over the vestry,
Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And ...
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Vests (6 Occurrences)

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Worshipers (12 Occurrences)
... (WBS NAS RSV). 2 Kings 10:22 And he said to him that was over the vestry,
Bring forth vestments for all the worshipers of Baal. And ...
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Worshippers (45 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV JPS ASV). 2 Kings 10:22 He said to him who was over the vestry, "Bring
out robes for all the worshippers of Baal!" He brought robes out to them. ...
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Ministers (49 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). 2 Kings 10:22 He said to him who was over the vestry, "Bring out robes
for all the worshippers of Baal!" He brought robes out to them. (See NIV). ...
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Ba'al (55 Occurrences)
... (See RSV). 2 Kings 10:22 He said to him who was over the vestry, "Bring out robes
for all the worshippers of Baal!" He brought robes out to them. (See RSV). ...
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Keeper (72 Occurrences)
... (BBE). 2 Kings 10:22 He said to him who was over the vestry, "Bring out robes for
all the worshippers of Baal!" He brought robes out to them. (See NIV). ...
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Robes (124 Occurrences)
... (BBE NIV). 2 Kings 10:22 He said to him who was over the vestry, "Bring out robes
for all the worshippers of Baal!" He brought robes out to them. (WEB BBE NIV). ...
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