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BEAM (from the O. Eng. beam, cf. Ger. Baum, a tree, to which sense may be referred the use of "beam" as meaning the rood or crucifix, and the survival in certain names of trees, as hornbeam), a solid piece of timber, as a beam of a house, of a plough, a loom, or a balance. In the last case, from meaning simply the cross-bar of the balance, "beam" has come to be used of the whole, as in the expression "the king's beam," or "common beam," which refers to the old English standard balance for wholesale goods, for several hundred years in the custody of the Grocers' Company, London. As a nautical term, "beam" was transferred from the main cross-timbers to the side of the ship; thus "on the weather-beam" means "to windward," and a ship is said to be "wide in the beam" when she is wide horizontally. The phrase "to be on one's beam-ends," denoting a position of extreme peril or helplessness, is borrowed from the position of a ship which has heeled over so far as to stand on the ends of her horizontal beams. The meaning of "beam" for shafts or rays of light comes apparently from the use of the word to translate the Latin columna lucis, a pillar of light.
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occurs in the Authorized Version as the rendering of various Hebrew
words. In 1 Sam. 17:7, it means a weaver's frame or principal beam;
in Hab. 2:11, a crossbeam or girder; 2 Kings 6:2, 5, a cross-piece
or rafter of a house; 1 Kings 7:6, an architectural ornament as a
projecting step or moulding; Ezek. 41:25, a thick plank. In the New
Testament the word occurs only in Matt. 7:3, 4, 5, and Luke 6:41,
42, where it means (Gr. dokos) a large piece of wood used for
building purposes, as contrasted with "mote" (Gr. karphos), a small
piece or mere splinter. "Mote" and "beam" became proverbial for
little and great faults.
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