Pillar
אֹמְנָהStrong’s H0547omenah (o-me-nah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Omenah is the Hebrew word usually translated “door-posts”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.”
Meaning
- Pillar, supporters of the door
- Confirm, support, uphold
How it's translated
- the door-posts 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
אֹמְנָה omenah · pillar
1) pillar, supporters of the door 2) confirm, support, uphold
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pillar” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PIL'LAR, noun
[Latin pila, a pile, a pillar a mortar and pestle. The Latin pila denotes a heap, or things thrown, put or driven together.]
- A kind or irregular column round an insulate, but deviating from the proportions of a just column.
- A supporter; that which sustains or upholds; that on which some superstructure rests. Galatians 2:9
- A monument raised to commemorate any person or remarkable transaction.“And Jacob set a pillar on her grave” Genesis 35:20
- Something resembling a pillar; as a pillar of salt. Genesis 19:26“So a pillar of a cloud, a pillar of fire” Exodus 13:21
All definitions
- Foundation; support. Job 9:6
- In ships, a square or round timber fixed perpendicularly under the middle of the beams for supporting the decks.
- In the manege, the center of the volta, ring or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
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.