Gallery
אַתּוּקStrong’s H0862attuq (at-tuq)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Attuq is the Hebrew word usually translated “gallery”, “galleries its” and “galleries”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;”
Meaning
- Gallery, porch
How it's translated
- a gallery 2
- and galleries its 1
- and the galleries 1
- galleries 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 4
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezekiel 41:16The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;
- Ezekiel 42:3Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.
- Ezekiel 42:5Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
Hebrew dictionary
אַתּוּק attuq · gallery
gallery, porch Another spelling of at.tiq (אַתִּיק "gallery" H0862B)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “gallery” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GAL'LERY,noun
- In architecture, a covered part of a building, commonly in the wings, used as an ambulatory or place for walking.
- An ornamental walk or apartment in gardens, formed by trees.
- In churches, a floor elevated on columns and furnished with pews or seats; usually ranged on three sides of the edifice.
- In fortification, a covered walk across the ditch of a town, made of beams covered with planks and loaded with earth.
All definitions
- In a mine, a narrow passage or branch of the mine carried under ground to a work designed to be blown up.
- In a ship, a frame like a balcony projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship of war or of a large merchantman.
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.