Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary
CEL'LARS. 1 Chr 27:27. Of cellars such as are common among us nothing was known in the East, if we except the chambers which are used in Persia for the storing of earthen jars or other vessels of wine. Among the Hebrews and Greeks these jars were buried up to the neck in the ground. The word "wine-cellars" in the passage cited probably denotes the patches of ground used to bury wine. See Wine.
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