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Leviticus 24:3
“Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the Lord continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H2351 · Hebrew
- Definition
- properly, separate by awall, i.e. outside, outdoors
- Derivation
- or (shortened) חֻץ; (both forms feminine in the plural) from an unused root meaning to sever;
- KJV renderings
- abroad, field, forth, highway, more, out(-side, -ward), street, without.
- Grammar
- מִ — preposition
- חוּץ֩ — common noun, masculine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 164 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 6:14Genesis 9:22Genesis 15:5Genesis 19:16Genesis 19:17
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 חוּץ 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.