Tile

Clay roof tiles
Clay roof tiles (© Arivumathi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Roof tile

About Tile

The roof tile was a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay used to cover a pitched roof. It is also possible that LUK 5:19 is speaking of thin, flat stones.

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Key References

Luke 5:19

but they could not find a way through the crowd. So they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.

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Luke 5:19

but they could not find a way through the crowd. So they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.