Lexicon :: Strong's H197 - 'ûlām

The portico in front of the temple sanctuary was thirty feet long extending across the temple’s width, and fifteen feet deep[fn] in front of the temple.

He made the hall of pillars seventy-five feet long and forty-five feet wide. A portico was in front of the pillars, and a canopy with pillars[fn] was in front of them.

Around the great courtyard, as well as the inner courtyard of the LORD’s temple and the portico of the temple, were three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams.

And the capitals on top of the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, six feet[fn] high.

He set up the pillars at the portico of the sanctuary: he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin;[fn] then he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz.[fn]

Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple and its buildings, treasuries, upstairs rooms, inner rooms, and a room for the mercy seat.

The portico, which was across the front extending across the width of the temple, was thirty feet wide; its height was thirty feet;[fn] he overlaid its inner surface with pure gold.

At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the LORD’s altar he had made in front of the portico.

When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the abhorrent idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He renovated the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD’s temple.

“They also closed the doors of the portico, extinguished the lamps, did not burn incense, and did not offer burnt offerings in the holy place of the God of Israel.

They began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the portico of the LORD’s temple. They consecrated the LORD’s temple for eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.

So he brought me to the inner court of the LORD’s house, and there were about twenty-five men at the entrance of the LORD’s temple, between the portico and the altar, with their backs to the LORD’s temple and their faces turned to the east. They were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.

Each recess was 10 ¹/₂ feet long and 10 ¹/₂ feet deep, and there was a space of 8 ³/₄ feet[fn] between the recesses. The inner threshold of the gate on the temple side next to the gate’s portico was 10 ¹/₂ feet.

The distance from the front of the gate at the entrance to the front of the gate’s portico on the inside was 87 ¹/₂ feet.[fn]

Inside the gate’s portico there were two tables on each side, on which to slaughter the burnt offering, sin offering, and guilt offering.

Then he brought me to the portico of the temple and measured the jambs of the portico; they were 8 ³/₄ feet thick on each side. The width of the gate was 24 ¹/₂ feet,[fn] and the side walls of the gate were[fn] 5 ¹/₄ feet[fn] wide on each side.

Next he measured the length of the building facing the temple yard to the west, with its galleries[fn] on each side; it was 175 feet.

The interior of the great hall and the porticoes of the court ​— ​

Cherubim and palm trees were carved on the doors of the great hall like those carved on the walls. There was a wooden canopy[fn] outside, in front of the portico.

“The prince himself will sit in the gate to eat a meal before the LORD. He is to enter by way of the portico of the gate and go out the same way.”

“The prince should enter from the outside by way of the gate’s portico and stand at the gate’s doorpost while the priests sacrifice his burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He will bow in worship at the gate’s threshold and then depart, but the gate is not to be closed until evening.

“When the prince enters, he is to go in by way of the gate’s portico and go out the same way.

Let the priests, the LORD’s ministers,

weep between the portico and the altar.

Let them say,

“Have pity on your people, LORD,

and do not make your inheritance a disgrace,

an object of scorn among the nations.

Why should it be said among the peoples,

‘Where is their God? ’ ”