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A wooden structure, sometimes a tree, used to impale or display a body after death, or for execution by hanging. Those hanged on gallows were deemed to be under God's curse.

A gallows used for impalement and display of bodies

Ezra 6:11 See also Joshua 8:29; Joshua 10:26; 2 Samuel 4:12

A gallows used for execution

Esther 7:9-10 See also Esther 2:23; Esther 9:13

Those hanged on gallows are under God's curse

Galatians 3:13 See also Deuteronomy 21:23

See also

4528  trees
5281  crucifixion
5331  hanging
5482  punishment
5827  curse
7346  death penalty