Manger.
The interest attached to this word is in connection with the birth of Christ. Luke 1:2-16. The word is faten, which in classical Greek is used for a 'manger' or 'feeding trough;' but it has been doubted whether the modern manger was introduced into Palestine so early. Schleusner contends that the word implies in scripture "any enclosure, but especially a vestibule to the house, where the cattle were, not enclosed with walls, but wooden hurdles." With this agrees the Vulgate praesepe and the Peshito-Syriac. The word faten occurs in the LXX in 2 Chronicles 32:28; Job 6:5; Job 39:9; Proverbs 14:4; Isaiah 1:3; Joel 1:17: Habakkuk 3:17.