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Lexicon :: Strong's H5439 - sāḇîḇ

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סָבִיב
Transliteration
sāḇîḇ
Pronunciation
saw-beeb'
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Part of Speech
adjective, adverb, substantive
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1456b

Strong’s Definitions

סָבִיב çâbîyb, saw-beeb'; or (feminine) סְבִיבָה çᵉbîybâh; from H5437; (as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around:—(place, round) about, circuit, compass, on every side.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 308x

The KJV translates Strong's H5439 in the following manner: round about (252x), on every side (26x), about 24 compass (2x), about us (2x), circuits (1x), about them (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 308x
The KJV translates Strong's H5439 in the following manner: round about (252x), on every side (26x), about 24 compass (2x), about us (2x), circuits (1x), about them (1x).
substantive

  1. places round about, circuit, round about

    adverb

  2. in a circuit, a circuit, round about

    preposition

  3. in the circuit, from every side

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
סָבִיב çâbîyb, saw-beeb'; or (feminine) סְבִיבָה çᵉbîybâh; from H5437; (as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around:—(place, round) about, circuit, compass, on every side.
STRONGS H5439: Abbreviations
סָבִיב 336 substantive, used mostly as adverb and preposition, circuit, round about: — construct סְבִיב †Amos 3:11; plural construct סְבִיבֵי †Jeremiah 32:44; Jeremiah 33:13, suffix סְבִיבֶיךָ etc. (10 times), much oftener סְבִיבוֺת Exodus 7:24 22 times, סְבִיבוֺתַי, תֶיךָ-, etc., Deuteronomy 17:14, etc. (48 times): —
1. in singular —
a. as substantive 1 Chronicles 11:8 מןהֿמלוא וְעַדהַֿסָּבִיב and to the parts round about.
b. as adverb accusative סָבִיב (in) a circuit, i.e. round about, Genesis 23:17 בְּכָלגְּֿבֻלוֺ סָבִיב Exodus 19:12; Exodus 25:11, Exodus 25:24, Exodus 25:25; Leviticus 1:5, Leviticus 1:11 עַל הַמִּזְבֵּחַ סָבִיב, Judges 20:29; 1 Kings 3:1; 1 Kings 5:11 [1 Kings 4:31]; Psalm 3:7 [Psalm 3:6] שָׁתוּ עָלָ֑י אֲשֶׁר ס׳, Psalm 12:9 [Psalm 12:8]; Psalm 34:8 [Psalm 34:7] + often; sometimes doubled, for the sake of emphasis, 2 Chronicles 4:3; Ezekiel 8:10 ס׳ עַל הַקִּיר ס׳, Ezekiel 37:2; Ezekiel 40:5 and often in Ezekiel 40-43.
c. as preposition:
(a) †Amos 3:11 צַר וּסְבִיב הָאָרֶץ distress, and that in the circuit of (= round about) the land (but read probably with Syriac Version יְסֹבֵב will encircle).
(b) סָבִיב לְ׳ Exodus 16:13; Exodus 40:33; Numbers 1:50, Numbers 1:53; Numbers 2:2; Judges 7:21; 1 Kings 6:5; 1 Kings 18:32, 1 Kings 18:35; Ezekiel 41:10; Ezekiel 14:16; Job 19:12; Psalm 34:8 [Psalm 34:7]; Psalm 78:28; Psalm 125:2 (twice in verse) סָבִיב לְעַמּוֺ י׳, Psalm 128:3; Songs 3:7; Nahum 3:8.
(c) strangely, סָבִיב אֵת † 1 Kings 6:5 (omitted by Greek Version of the LXX), Ezekiel 43:17.
d. מִסָּבִיב 42, from round about, from every side, Ezekiel 16:33, Ezekiel 16:37; Ezekiel 23:22; Ezekiel 37:21, but usually (מִן 1c) = on every side, Jeremiah 4:17 הָיוּ עָלֶיהָ מִסָּבִיב, Isaiah 42:25 וַתְּלַהֲטֵהוּ מ׳, Joel 4:11 [Joel 3:11]; Joel 4:12 [Joel 3:12]; H4036 † מָגוֺר מִסָּבִיב terror on every side! Jeremiah 6:25; [H4036 Jeremiah 20:3], Jeremiah 20:10; Jeremiah 46:5; Jeremiah 49:29; Psalm 31:14 [Psalm 31:13], compare Lamentations 2:22; especially in the Deuteronomic phrases אוֺיְבִים מ׳, or הֵנִיחַ מ׳ (sometimes in combination), as Deuteronomy 12:10 והניח לכם מכלאֿויביכם מ׳, Deuteronomy 25:19; Joshua 21:42 לָהֶם מ׳ וַיָּנַח י׳, Joshua 23:1; Judges 2:14; Judges 8:34; 1 Samuel 12:11 +; מִסָּבִיב לְ from round about, † Numbers 16:24, Numbers 16:27.— On 1 Samuel 14:21; 2 Samuel 24:6; Job 10:8 see H5437 סָבַב.
2. In plural: —
a. †סְבִיבִים :
(a) in masculine sense, those round about, Psalm 76:12 [Psalm 76:11] כָּלסְֿבִיבָיו יֹבִילוּ שַׁי, Psalm 89:8 [Psalm 89:7]; Jeremiah 48:17, Jeremiah 48:39.
(b) in neuter sense, the parts round about, Jeremiah 49:5 מִכָּלסְֿבִיבָ֑יִךְ, בִּסְבִיבֵי ירושׁלם Jeremiah 32:44; Jeremiah 33:13; Jeremiah 21:14 וְאָֽכְלָה כָּלסְֿבִיבֶיהָ, Jeremiah 46:14; with the force of a preposition, Psalm 50:3 וסביביו נשׂערה מאד, Psalm 97:2; Lamentations 1:17.
b. סְבִיבוֺת:
(a) as substantive
(α) circuits, Ecclesiastes 1:6 ועל סביבותיו שָׁב הָרוּחַ;
(β) the parts round about, Numbers 22:4 ילחכו הקהל אתכֿלסְֿבִיבֹתֵינוּ, Jeremiah 17:26; Jeremiah 50:32 (compare Jeremiah 21:14 above); with reference to their inhabitants, Psalm 44:19 [Psalm 44:18] = Psalm 79:4 לעג וקלס לסב׳, Ezekiel 16:57; Ezekiel 28:24; Daniel 9:16.
(b) with the force a preposition Exodus 7:24 סְבִיבֹת הַיְאֹר literally (in) the circuits of the Nile = round about the Nile, Numbers 11:24, Numbers 11:31, Numbers 11:32; Numbers 35:2 סְבִיבֹתֵיהֶם, Judges 7:18; 1 Samuel 26:5, 1 Samuel 26:7; 2 Kings 6:17 סביבֹת אלישׁע, Psalm 18:12 [Psalm 18:11]; Psalm 27:6 על אֹיְבַי סביבותי, etc.; often idiomatic preceded by אשׁר, as Genesis 33:5 הערים אשׁר סביבותיהם Genesis 41:48; Leviticus 25:44; Numbers 16:34; Deuteronomy 6:14; Deuteronomy 13:8 [Deuteronomy 13:7]; Deuteronomy 17:14; Deuteronomy 21:2 +. In the same sense מִסְּבִיבוֺתָם † Ezekiel 28:26.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

23:17; 33:5; 41:48

Exodus

7:24; 7:24; 16:13; 19:12; 25:11; 25:24; 25:25; 40:33

Leviticus

1:5; 1:11; 25:44

Numbers

1:50; 1:53; 2:2; 11:24; 11:31; 11:32; 16:24; 16:27; 16:34; 22:4; 35:2

Deuteronomy

6:14; 12:10; 13:7; 17:14; 17:14; 21:2; 25:19

Joshua

21:42; 23:1

Judges

2:14; 7:18; 7:21; 8:34; 20:29

1 Samuel

12:11; 14:21; 26:5; 26:7

2 Samuel

24:6

1 Kings

3:1; 4:31; 6:5; 6:5; 18:32; 18:35

2 Kings

6:17

1 Chronicles

11:8

2 Chronicles

4:3

Job

10:8; 19:12

Psalms

3:6; 12:8; 18:11; 18:12; 27:6; 31:13; 34:7; 34:7; 44:18; 50:3; 76:11; 78:28; 79:4; 89:7; 97:2; 125:2; 128:3

Ecclesiastes

1:6

Song of Songs

3:7

Isaiah

42:25

Jeremiah

4:17; 6:25; 17:26; 20:10; 21:14; 21:14; 32:44; 32:44; 33:13; 33:13; 46:5; 46:14; 48:17; 48:39; 49:5; 49:29; 50:32

Lamentations

1:17; 2:22

Ezekiel

8:10; 14:16; 16:33; 16:37; 16:57; 23:22; 28:24; 28:26; 37:2; 37:21; 40:5; 41:10; 43:17

Daniel

9:16

Joel

3:11; 3:12

Amos

3:11; 3:11

Nahum

3:8

H5439

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Strong's Number H5439 matches the Hebrew סָבִיב (sāḇîḇ),
which occurs 112 times in 74 verses in 'Eze' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Eze 1:4–Eze 40:33)

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:4 - Then I looked, and behold, a whirlwind was coming out of the north, a great cloud with raging fire engulfing itself; and brightness was all around it and radiating out of its midst like the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:18 - As for their rims, they were so high they were awesome; and their rims were full of eyes, all around the four of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:27 - Also from the appearance of His waist and upward I saw, as it were, the color of amber with the appearance of fire all around within it; and from the appearance of His waist and downward I saw, as it were, the appearance of fire with brightness all around.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:28 - Like the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around it. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. So when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of One speaking.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:2 - “Lay siege against it, build a siege wall against it, and heap up a mound against it; set camps against it also, and place battering rams against it all around.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:2 - “You shall burn with fire one-third in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are finished; then you shall take one-third and strike around it with the sword, and one-third you shall scatter in the wind: I will draw out a sword after them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:5 - “Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations and the countries all around her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:6 - ‘She has rebelled against My judgments by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against My statutes more than the countries that are all around her; for they have refused My judgments, and they have not walked in My statutes.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:7 - “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Because you have multiplied disobedience more than the nations that are all around you, have not walked in My statutes nor kept My judgments, nor even done[fn] according to the judgments of the nations that are all around you’—

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:12 - ‘One-third of you shall die of the pestilence, and be consumed with famine in your midst; and one-third shall fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter another third to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:14 - ‘Moreover I will make you a waste and a reproach among the nations that are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:15 - ‘So it[fn] shall be a reproach, a taunt, a lesson, and an astonishment to the nations that are all around you, when I execute judgments among you in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:5 - “And I will lay the corpses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones all around your altars.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13 - ‘Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain are among their idols all around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every thick oak, wherever they offered sweet incense to all their idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:10 - So I went in and saw, and there—every sort of creeping thing, abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed all around on the walls.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:12 - And their whole body, with their back, their hands, their wings, and the wheels that the four had, were full of eyes all around.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:12 - “And you shall know that I am the LORD; for you have not walked in My statutes nor executed My judgments, but have done according to the customs of the Gentiles which are all around you.” ’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:14 - “I will scatter to every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his troops; and I will draw out the sword after them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:33 - “Men make payment to all harlots, but you made your payments to all your lovers, and hired them to come to you from all around for your harlotry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:37

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:37 - “surely, therefore, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved, and all those you hated; I will gather them from all around against you and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:57

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:57 - “before your wickedness was uncovered. It was like the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria[fn] and all those around her, and of the daughters of the Philistines, who despise you everywhere.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:8 - Then the nations set against him from the provinces on every side,
And spread their net over him;
He was trapped in their pit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:22 - “Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD:

‘Behold, I will stir up your lovers against you,
From whom you have alienated yourself,
And I will bring them against you from every side:

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:24 - And they shall come against you
With chariots, wagons, and war-horses,
With a horde of people.
They shall array against you
Buckler, shield, and helmet all around.

‘I will delegate judgment to them,
And they shall judge you according to their judgments.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:11 - Men of Arvad with your army were on your walls all around,
And the men of Gammad were in your towers;
They hung their shields on your walls all around;
They made your beauty perfect.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 28:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:23 - For I will send pestilence upon her,
And blood in her streets;
The wounded shall be judged in her midst
By the sword against her on every side;
Then they shall know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 28:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:24 - “And there shall no longer be a pricking brier or a painful thorn for the house of Israel from among all who are around them, who despise them. Then they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 28:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:26 - “And they will dwell safely there, build houses, and plant vineyards; yes, they will dwell securely, when I execute judgments on all those around them who despise them. Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God.” ’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:4 - The waters made it grow;
Underground waters gave it height,
With their rivers running around the place where it was planted,
And sent out rivulets to all the trees of the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:22 - “Assyria is there, and all her company,
With their graves all around her,
All of them slain, fallen by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:23 - Her graves are set in the recesses of the Pit,
And her company is all around her grave,
All of them slain, fallen by the sword,
Who caused terror in the land of the living.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:24 - “There is Elam and all her multitude,
All around her grave,
All of them slain, fallen by the sword,
Who have gone down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth,
Who caused their terror in the land of the living;
Now they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:25 - They have set her bed in the midst of the slain,
With all her multitude,
With her graves all around it,
All of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword;
Though their terror was caused
In the land of the living,
Yet they bear their shame
With those who go down to the Pit;
It was put in the midst of the slain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:26 - “There are Meshech and Tubal and all their multitudes,
With all their graves around it,
All of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword,
Though they caused their terror in the land of the living.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:26 - “I will make them and the places all around My hill a blessing; and I will cause showers to come down in their season; there shall be showers of blessing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:3 - “therefore prophesy, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because they made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and slandered by the people”—

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:4 - ‘therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, the hills, the rivers, the valleys, the desolate wastes, and the cities that have been forsaken, which became plunder and mockery to the rest of the nations all around—

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:7 - ‘Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “I have raised My hand in an oath that surely the nations that are around you shall bear their own shame.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:36

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:36 - “Then the nations which are left all around you shall know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken it, and I will do it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 37:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:2 - Then He caused me to pass by them all around, and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and indeed they were very dry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 37:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:21 - “Then say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 39:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:17 - “And as for you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field:

“Assemble yourselves and come;
Gather together from all sides to My sacrificial meal
Which I am sacrificing for you,
A great sacrificial meal on the mountains of Israel,
That you may eat flesh and drink blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:5 - Now there was a wall all around the outside of the temple.[fn] In the man’s hand was a measuring rod six cubits long, each being a cubit and a handbreadth; and he measured the width of the wall structure, one rod; and the height, one rod.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:14 - He measured the gateposts, sixty cubits high, and the court all around the gateway extended to the gatepost.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:16 - There were beveled window frames in the gate chambers and in their intervening archways on the inside of the gateway all around, and likewise in the vestibules. There were windows all around on the inside. And on each gatepost were palm trees.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:17 - Then he brought me into the outer court; and there were chambers and a pavement made all around the court; thirty chambers faced the pavement.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:25 - There were windows in it and in its archways all around like those windows; its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:29 - Also its gate chambers, its gateposts, and its archways were according to these same measurements; there were windows in it and in its archways all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:30 - There were archways all around, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits wide.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:33 - Also its gate chambers, its gateposts, and its archways were according to these same measurements; and there were windows in it and in its archways all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

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