Entrance
בִּאָהStrong’s H0872beah (be-ah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Beah is the Hebrew word usually translated “entrance”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.”
Meaning
- Entrance, a coming in, entering, entry (of the temple)entrance · entering (act of entrance)
How it's translated
- in the entrance 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
בִּאָה beah · entrance
1) entrance, a coming in, entering, entry (of the temple) 1a) entrance 1b) entering (act of entrance)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “entrance” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EN'TRANCE, noun
[Latin intrans, intro.]
- The act of entering into a place; as the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment.
- The power of entering.
- The door, gate, passage or avenue, by which a place may be entered.“They said, show us the entrance into the city” Judges 1:24
- Commencement; initiation; beginning.
All definitions
- The act of taking possession, as of land; as the entrance of an heir or a disseizor into lands and tenements.
- The act of taking possession, as of an office.
- The act of entering a ship or goods at the custom-house.
- The beginning of any thing.
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.