Parapet, retaining wall

The parapet was a low stone wall built around the flat roof of a house to prevent people or things from falling off. See the illustration at House, permanent dwelling.

In the Bible

The Hebrew and Greek words for it, and every verse where each is used

Also in Roof, housetop

Sources

Plants and Trees in the Bible, Animals in the Bible and Human-made Things in the Bible © United Bible Societies, 2025 (adapted from Each According to its Kind: Plants and Trees in the Bible by Robert Koops, All Creatures Great and Small: Living Things in the Bible by Edward R. Hope, and The Works of Their Hands: Man-made Things in the Bible by Ray Pritz), CC BY-SA 4.0; adapted for eRhema