Arches
אֵילָםStrong’s H0361elam (e-lam)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Elam is the Hebrew word usually translated “porches its” and “porches”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.”
Meaning
- Porch, vestibule, portico
How it's translated
- and porches its 10
- and to porches its 3
- to the porches 1
- and porches 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 12
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezekiel 40:21And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
- Ezekiel 40:22And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them.
- Ezekiel 40:24After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.
- Ezekiel 40:25And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
- Ezekiel 40:26And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof.
- Ezekiel 40:29And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
Hebrew dictionary
אֵילָם elam · arches
porch, vestibule, portico
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “porch” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PORCH, noun
[Latin porticus, from porta, a gate, entrance or passage, or from portus, a shelter.]
- In architecture, a kind of vestibule supported by columns at the entrance of temples, halls, churches or other buildings.
- A portico; a covered walk.
- By way of distinction, the porch was a public portico in Athens, where Zeno, the philosopher, taught his disciples.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.