Azarah עֲזָרָה
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| עֲזָרָה | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | azarah |
| Strong's number | H5835 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | feminine noun |
| Gloss | enclosure |
| Occurrences | 9 in 6 verses |
| Most frequent in | Ezekiel (4) |
Azarah (Hebrew עֲזָרָה, Strong's H5835) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “enclosure”. It occurs 9 times in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
1) enclosure
1a) ledge (surrounding Ezekiel's altar)
1b) court (outer one of temple)
1a) ledge (surrounding Ezekiel's altar)
1b) court (outer one of temple)
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | settle (6), court (3) |
|---|---|
| BSB | ledge (6), court (1), courtyard (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Azarah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
2 Chronicles
- 2 Chronicles 4:9Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.He made the courtyard of the priests and the large court with its doors, and he overlaid the doors with bronze.
- 2 Chronicles 6:13For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,Now Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had placed it in the middle of the courtyard. He stood on it, knelt down before the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,
Ezekiel
- Ezekiel 43:14And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.The space from the gutter on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide. The space from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge shall be four cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide.
- Ezekiel 43:17And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.The ledge shall also be square, fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, with a rim of half a cubit and a gutter of a cubit all around it. The steps of the altar shall face east.”
- Ezekiel 43:20And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and all around the rim; thus you will cleanse the altar and make atonement for it.
- Ezekiel 45:19And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.And the priest is to take some of the blood from the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the gateposts of the inner court.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).