Post:
(1.) A runner, or courier, for the rapid transmission of letters, etc. (2Ch 30:6; Est 3:13,15; 8:10,14; Job 9:25; Jer 51:31). Such messengers were used from very early times. Those employed by the Hebrew kings had a military character (1Sa 22:17; 2Ki 10:25, "guard," marg. "runners"). The modern system of postal communication was first established by Louis XI. of France in A.D. 1464.
(2.) This word sometimes also is used for lintel or threshold (Isa 6:4).
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