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2 Chronicles 3:4
“And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H197 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a vestibule (as bound to the building)
- Derivation
- or (shortened), אֻלָם ; from H481 (אָלַם) (in the sense of tying);
- KJV renderings
- porch.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- הָ — particle (definite article)
- אוּלָ֡ם — common noun, masculine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 34 times in the Hebrew Bible.1 Kings 6:31 Kings 7:61 Kings 7:61 Kings 7:71 Kings 7:7
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read אוּלָם here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.