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Lexicon :: Strong's H361 - 'êlām

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אֵילָם
Transliteration
'êlām
Pronunciation
ay-lawm'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from אַיִל (H352)
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TWOT Reference: 45j

Strong’s Definitions

אֵילָם ʼêylâm, ay-lawm'; or (shortened) אֵלָם ʼêlâm ; or (feminine) אֵלַמָּה ʼêlammâh ; probably from H352; a pillar-space (or colonnade), i.e. a pale (or portico):—arch.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x

The KJV translates Strong's H361 in the following manner: arches (15x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x
The KJV translates Strong's H361 in the following manner: arches (15x).

  1. porch, vestibule, portico

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֵילָם ʼêylâm, ay-lawm'; or (shortened) אֵלָם ʼêlâm ; or (feminine) אֵלַמָּה ʼêlammâh ; probably from H352; a pillar-space (or colonnade), i.e. a pale (or portico):—arch.
STRONGS H361: Abbreviations
[אֵילָם] noun masculine porch (= אוּלָם), which see; only Ezekiel, where Co always for אוּלָם, compare Greek Version of the LXX αἰλαμ; BöNÄ 929; makes אילם vestibule, אולם porch) — אֵילָם read for אֵילִים Ezekiel 40:37 (so Sm Co); suffix אילמו Kt Ezekiel 40:22 (twice in verse) + 4 times (Qr אֵילַמָּיו) + Ezekiel 41:15 Co (for MT אֻלַמֵּי); אלמו Kt Ezekiel 40:21 + 6 times (Qr אֵלַמָּיו). — Co all singular: — plural אֵלַמּוֺת Ezekiel 40:16 (Co singular) Ezekiel 40:30 (strike out Co compare MSS. of HCT, B etc., also Ew Hi Sm). — porch, of Ezekiel's temple Ezekiel 40:16, 21 + 13 times
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Ezekiel

40:16; 40:16; 40:21; 40:21; 40:22; 40:30; 40:37; 41:15

H361

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Strong's Number H361 matches the Hebrew אֵילָם ('êlām),
which occurs 27 times in 12 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:16 - There were recessed windows that narrowed inward through the walls of the guard alcoves and their dividing walls. There were also windows in the entry room. The surfaces of the dividing walls were decorated with carved palm trees.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:21 - Here, too, there were three guard alcoves on each side, with dividing walls and an entry room. All the measurements matched those of the east gateway. The gateway passage was 87½ feet long and 43¾ feet wide between the back walls of facing guard alcoves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:22 - The windows, the entry room, and the palm tree decorations were identical to those in the east gateway. There were seven steps leading up to the gateway entrance, and the entry room was at the inner end of the gateway passage.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:24 - Then the man took me around to the south gateway and measured its various parts, and they were exactly the same as in the others.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:25 - It had windows along the walls as the others did, and there was an entry room where the gateway passage opened into the outer courtyard. And like the others, the gateway passage was 87½ feet long and 43¾ feet wide between the back walls of facing guard alcoves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:26 - This gateway also had a stairway of seven steps leading up to it, and an entry room at the inner end, and palm tree decorations along the dividing walls.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:29 - Its guard alcoves, dividing walls, and entry room were the same size as those in the others. It also had windows along its walls and in the entry room. And like the others, the gateway passage was 87½ feet long and 43¾ feet wide.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:30 - (The entry rooms of the gateways leading into the inner courtyard were 14 feet[fn] across and 43¾ feet wide.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:31 - The entry room to the south gateway faced into the outer courtyard. It had palm tree decorations on its columns, and there were eight steps leading to its entrance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:33 - Its guard alcoves, dividing walls, and entry room were the same size as those of the others, and there were windows along the walls and in the entry room. The gateway passage measured 87½ feet long and 43¾ feet wide.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:34

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:34 - Its entry room faced into the outer courtyard. It had palm tree decorations on its columns, and there were eight steps leading to its entrance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:36

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:36 - The guard alcoves, dividing walls, and entry room of this gateway had the same measurements as in the others and the same window arrangements. The gateway passage measured 87½ feet long and 43¾ feet wide.
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