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Lexicon :: Strong's G5038 - teichos

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τεῖχος
Transliteration
teichos (Key)
Pronunciation
ti'-khos
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Akin to the base of τίκτω (G5088)
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Strong’s Definitions

τεῖχος teîchos, ti'-khos; akin to the base of G5088; a wall (as formative of a house):—wall.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x

The KJV translates Strong's G5038 in the following manner: wall (9x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x
The KJV translates Strong's G5038 in the following manner: wall (9x).
  1. the wall around a city, town wall

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
τεῖχος teîchos, ti'-khos; akin to the base of G5088; a wall (as formative of a house):—wall.
STRONGS G5038:
τεῖχος, τείχους, τό (cf. θιγγάνω; allied with it are English 'dike' and 'ditch'), from Homer down, the Sept. very frequent for חומָה, 'wall'; the wall round a city, town-wall: Acts 9:25; 2 Corinthians 11:33; Hebrews 11:30; Revelation 21:12, 14f, 17-19.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Acts
9:25
2 Corinthians
11:33
Hebrews
11:30
Revelation
21; 21:12; 21:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5038 matches the Greek τεῖχος (teichos),
which occurs 7 times in 7 verses in '2Ki' in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:27 - Then he took his oldest son who was to reign in his place and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. And there came great wrath against Israel. And they withdrew from him and returned to their own land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:26 - Now as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:30 - When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes—now he was passing by on the wall—and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth beneath on his body—
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:13 - And Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem for four hundred cubits,[fn] from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:26 - Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:27 - But the Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:4 - Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king’s garden, and the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.
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