Lexicon :: Strong's H2435 - ḥîṣôn

He carved all the surrounding temple walls with carved engravings ​— ​cherubim, palm trees, and flower blossoms ​— ​in the inner and outer sanctuaries.

To satisfy the king of Assyria, he removed from the LORD’s temple the Sabbath canopy they had built in the palace, and he closed the outer entrance for the king.

From the Izrahites: Chenaniah and his sons had duties outside the temple[fn] as officers and judges over Israel.

After this, he built the outer wall of the city of David from west of Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate; he brought it around Ophel, and he heightened it considerably. He also placed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.

and Shabbethai and Jozabad, from the heads of the Levites, who supervised the work outside the house of God;

The king asked, “Who is in the court? ” Now Haman was just entering the outer court of the palace to ask the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows he had prepared for him.

The sound of the cherubim’s wings could be heard as far as the outer court; it was like the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.

Then he brought me into the outer court, and there were chambers and a paved surface laid out all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement,

He measured the gate of the outer court facing north, both its length and width.

Its portico faced the outer court, and its jambs were decorated with palm trees. Its stairway had eight steps.

Its portico faced the outer court, and its jambs were decorated with palm trees on each side. Its stairway had eight steps.

Its portico[fn] faced the outer court, and its jambs were decorated with palm trees on each side. Its stairway had eight steps.

reaching to the top of the entrance, and as far as the inner temple and on the outside. On every wall all around, on the inside and outside, was a pattern

Then the man led me out by way of the north gate into the outer court. He brought me to the group of chambers opposite the temple yard and opposite the building to the north.

Opposite the 35 foot space[fn] belonging to the inner court and opposite the paved surface belonging to the outer court, the structure rose gallery by gallery in three tiers.

A wall on the outside ran in front of the chambers, parallel to them, toward the outer court; it was 87 ¹/₂ feet long.

“Once the priests have entered, they are not to go out from the holy area to the outer court until they have removed the clothes they minister in, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes before they approach the public area.”

The man then brought me back toward the sanctuary’s outer gate that faced east, and it was closed.

“Before they go out to the outer court,[fn] to the people, they must take off the clothes they have been ministering in, leave them in the holy chambers, and dress in other clothes so that they do not transmit holiness to the people through their clothes.

He said to me, “This is the place where the priests will boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they will bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them into the outer court and transmit holiness to the people.”