International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
POMMELpum'-el (2 Chronicles 4:12, 13): the Revised Version (British and American) reads "bowl" (which see).
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
v.) To pummel; or (
n.) a knob or ball; as on a pommel horse.
2. (n.) The knob on the hilt of a sword.
3. (n.) The knob or protuberant part of a saddlebow.
4. (n.) The top (of the head).
5. (n.) A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion.
6. (v. t.) To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists.
Strong's Hebrew
1543. gullah -- a basin, bowl... bowl,
pommel, spring. Feminine from galal; a fountain, bowl or globe (all as round) --
bowl,
pommel, spring. see HEBREW galal. << 1542, 1543. gullah. 1544 >>.
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