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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.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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 141 times in 130 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 3 (Exo 14:22–Neh 3:13)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:22 - and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:29 - But the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:8 - By the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up. The surging waters stood up like a wall; the deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:30 - If it is not redeemed before a full year has passed, the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to the buyer and the buyer’s descendants. It is not to be returned in the Jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:31 - But houses in villages without walls around them are to be considered as belonging to the open country. They can be redeemed, and they are to be returned in the Jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:4 - “The pasturelands around the towns that you give the Levites will extend a thousand cubits[fn] from the town wall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:5 - All these cities were fortified with high walls and with gates and bars, and there were also a great many unwalled villages.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:52

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:52 - They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the LORD your God is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:5 - When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:20 - When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:16 - Night and day they were a wall around us the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:10 - They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:12 - all their valiant men marched through the night to Beth Shan. They took down the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth Shan and went to Jabesh, where they burned them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:20 - the king’s anger may flare up, and he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Didn’t you know they would shoot arrows from the wall?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:21 - Who killed Abimelek son of Jerub-Besheth[fn]? Didn’t a woman drop an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If he asks you this, then say to him, ‘Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:22 - The messenger set out, and when he arrived he told David everything Joab had sent him to say.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:24 - Then the archers shot arrows at your servants from the wall, and some of the king’s men died. Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:24 - While David was sitting between the inner and outer gates, the watchman went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall. As he looked out, he saw a man running alone.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:15 - All the troops with Joab came and besieged Sheba in Abel Beth Maakah. They built a siege ramp up to the city, and it stood against the outer fortifications. While they were battering the wall to bring it down,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:16 - a wise woman called from the city, “Listen! Listen! Tell Joab to come here so I can speak to him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:21 - That is not the case. A man named Sheba son of Bikri, from the hill country of Ephraim, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Hand over this one man, and I’ll withdraw from the city.” The woman said to Joab, “His head will be thrown to you from the wall.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:30 - With your help I can advance against a troop[fn]; with my God I can scale a wall.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:30 - The rest of them escaped to the city of Aphek, where the wall collapsed on twenty-seven thousand of them. And Ben-Hadad fled to the city and hid in an inner room.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:27 - Then he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him as a sacrifice on the city wall. The fury against Israel was great; they withdrew and returned to their own land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:26 - As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:30 - When the king heard the woman’s words, he tore his robes. As he went along the wall, the people looked, and they saw that, under his robes, he had sackcloth on his body.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:13 - Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh. Then Jehoash went to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section about four hundred cubits long.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:26 - Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:27 - But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:4 - Then the city wall was broken through, and the whole army fled at night through the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Babylonians[fn] were surrounding the city. They fled toward the Arabah,[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:5 - He rebuilt Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon as fortified cities, with walls and with gates and bars,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:11 - He strengthened their defenses and put commanders in them, with supplies of food, olive oil and wine.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:7 - “Let us build up these towns,” he said to Judah, “and put walls around them, with towers, gates and bars. The land is still ours, because we have sought the LORD our God; we sought him and he has given us rest on every side.” So they built and prospered.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:23 - Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah,[fn] at Beth Shemesh. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section about four hundred cubits[fn] long.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:6 - He went to war against the Philistines and broke down the walls of Gath, Jabneh and Ashdod. He then rebuilt towns near Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:3 - Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the temple of the LORD and did extensive work on the wall at the hill of Ophel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:5 - Then he worked hard repairing all the broken sections of the wall and building towers on it. He built another wall outside that one and reinforced the terraces[fn] of the City of David. He also made large numbers of weapons and shields.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:18 - Then they called out in Hebrew to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to terrify them and make them afraid in order to capture the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:14 - Afterward he rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David, west of the Gihon spring in the valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate and encircling the hill of Ophel; he also made it much higher. He stationed military commanders in all the fortified cities in Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:19 - They set fire to God’s temple and broke down the wall of Jerusalem; they burned all the palaces and destroyed everything of value there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:12 - The king should know that the people who came up to us from you have gone to Jerusalem and are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city. They are restoring the walls and repairing the foundations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:13 - Furthermore, the king should know that if this city is built and its walls are restored, no more taxes, tribute or duty will be paid, and eventually the royal revenues will suffer.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:16 - We inform the king that if this city is built and its walls are restored, you will be left with nothing in Trans-Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:3 - They said to me, “Those who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:8 - And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the royal park, so he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple and for the city wall and for the residence I will occupy?” And because the gracious hand of my God was on me, the king granted my requests.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:13 - By night I went out through the Valley Gate toward the Jackal[fn] Well and the Dung Gate, examining the walls of Jerusalem, which had been broken down, and its gates, which had been destroyed by fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:15 - so I went up the valley by night, examining the wall. Finally, I turned back and reentered through the Valley Gate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:17 - Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned with fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and we will no longer be in disgrace.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:8 - Uzziel son of Harhaiah, one of the goldsmiths, repaired the next section; and Hananiah, one of the perfume-makers, made repairs next to that. They restored Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:13 - The Valley Gate was repaired by Hanun and the residents of Zanoah. They rebuilt it and put its doors with their bolts and bars in place. They also repaired a thousand cubits[fn] of the wall as far as the Dung Gate.

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