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The interest attached to this word is in connection with the birth of Christ. Luke 2: 7-16. The word is φάτνη, 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 φάτνη occurs in the LXX in 2 Chr. 32: 28; Job 6: 5; Job 39: 9; Prov.
14: 4; Isa. 1: 3; Joel 1: 17: Hab. 3: 17.