Pinnacle

A little wing, (Matt. 4:5; Luke 4:9). On the southern side of the temple court was a range of porches or cloisters forming three arcades. At the south-eastern corner the roof of this cloister was some 300 feet above the Kidron valley. The pinnacle, some parapet or wing-like projection, was above this roof, and hence at a great height, probably 350 feet or more above the valley.

(of the temple), (Matthew 4:5; Luke 4:9) The Greek word ought to be rendered not a pinnacle, but the pinnacle. The only part of the temple which answered to the modern sense of pinnacle was the golden spikes erected on the roof to prevent birds from settling there. Perhaps the word means the battlement ordered by law to be added to every roof. (According to Alford it was the roof of Herod’s royal portico of the temple,“which overhung the ravine of Kedron from a dizzy height”—600 or 700 feet.-ED.)

PIN'NACLE. The word translated "pinnacle," Matt 4:5; Luke 4:9, signifies, not a summit, but a wing; and the part of the temple to which our Lord was taken by Satan was probably the elevation over the roof of Solomon's porch, to which there was a passage by stairs, and which overlooked the valley on the east, and had beneath a perpendicular depth of 600 or 700 feet, for at this part of the valley a wall had been The Eastern Pine. carried up to a level with the ground on which the temple stood (some historians say 750 feet).

PIN'NACLE. The word translated "pinnacle," Matt 4:5; Luke 4:9, signifies, not a summit, but a wing; and the part of the temple to which our Lord was taken by Satan was probably the elevation over the roof of Solomon's

porch, to which there was a passage by stairs, and which overlooked the valley on the east, and had beneath a perpendicular depth of 600 or 700 feet, for at this part of the valley a wall had been The Eastern Pine. carried up to a level with the ground on which the temple stood (some historians say 750 feet).

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire, and the like. Pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight, where it is necessary to resist the thrust of an arch, etc. Some renowned metropolis With glistering spires and pinnacles around. Milton.

2. Anything resembling a pinnacle; a lofty peak; a pointed summit. Three silent pinnacles of aged snow. Tennyson. The slippery tops of human state, The gilded pinnacles of fate. Cowley.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles. T. Warton.