Stall
אֲוֵרָהStrong’s H0723averah (a-ve-rah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Averah is the Hebrew word usually translated “stalls of” and “stalls”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.”
Meaning
- Manger, stall, crib
How it's translated
- stalls of 2
- and stalls 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 2
- 1 Kings 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 9:25And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 32:28Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.
Hebrew dictionary
אֲוֵרָה averah · stall
manger, stall, crib Another spelling of ur.vah (אֻרְיָה "stall" H0723)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “stall” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STALL, noun
[G., to set, that is, to throw down, to thrust down. See Still.]
- Primarily, a stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox is kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the apartment for one horse or ox.
- A stable; a place for cattle.
- In stall is used for horse. 1 Kings 4:262 Chronicles 9:25
- A bench, form or frame of shelves in the open air, where any thing is exposed to sale.
All definitions and other forms of “stall”
- A small house or shed in which an occupation is carried on; as a butchers stall
- The seat of a dignified clergyman in the choir.
STALL, verb transitive
- To put into a stable; or to keep in a stable; as, to stall an ox.
- To install; to place in an office with the customary formalities. [For this, install is now used.]
- To set; to fix; to plunge into mire so as not to be able to proceed; as, to stall horses or a carriage. [This phrase I have heard in Virginia.
STALL, verb intransitive
- To dwell; to inhabit.
- To kennel.
- To be set, as in mire.
- To be tired of eating, as cattle.
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.