Normally, a space for one animal within a stable or barn, but the Bible sometimes uses the term for what would now be called a pen. In (Amos 6:4) the “calves from the stall” reflects the still-used practice of isolating animals for special preslaughter fattening or “finishing.” (Mal 4:2) reports the typical exuberance of young animals released from their pen into open pasture. More traditional individual stalls may be specified in (1Kgs 4:20), citing Solomon’s forty thousand stalls of horses, but (2Chr 32:28 and Hab 3:17) may refer to group pens.
