Border
זֵרStrong’s H2213zer
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zer is the Hebrew word usually translated “molding of”, “molding its” and “molding”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.”
Meaning
- Border, moulding, circlet
How it's translated
- a molding of 7
- to molding its 2
- a molding 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 10
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 25:24And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.
- Exodus 25:25And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
- Exodus 30:3And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about.
- Exodus 30:4And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal.
- Exodus 37:2And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.
- Exodus 37:11And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown of gold round about.
Hebrew dictionary
זֵר zer · border
border, moulding, circlet
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “border” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BORD'ER, noun
The outer edge of any thing; the extreme part or surrounding line; the confine or exterior limit of a country, or of any region or tract of land; the exterior part or edge of a garment, or of the corol of plants; the rim or brim of a vessel, but not often applied to vessels; the exterior part of a garden, and hence a bank raised at the side of a garden, for the cultivation of flowers, and a row of plants; in short, the outer part or edge of things too numerous to be specified.
All definitions and other forms of “border”
BORD'ER, verb intransitive
To confine; to touch at the edge, side or end; to be contiguous or adjacent; with on or upon; as, Connecticut on the north borders on or upon Massachusetts.
- To approach near to.
BORD'ER, verb transitive
To make a border; to adorn with a border of ornaments; as, to border a garment or a garden.
- To reach to; to touch at the edge or end; to confine upon; to be contiguous to.
- To confine within bounds; to limit. [Not used.]
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.