Outer
חִיצוֹןStrong’s H2435chitson (chi-tson)
Appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chitson is the Hebrew word usually translated “outer”, “outside” and “external”. It appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.”
Meaning
- Outer, external, outward
How it's translated
- outer 19
- and to the outer 2
- outside 1
- external 1
- the outer 1
- and in the outer 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 17
- 1 Kings 2
- 2 Kings 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Nehemiah 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 6:30And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
- 2 Kings 16:18And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king’s entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria.
- 1 Chronicles 26:29Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.
- 2 Chronicles 33:14Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
- Nehemiah 11:16And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God.
- Esther 6:4And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king’s house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
Hebrew dictionary
חִיצוֹן chitson · outer
outer, external, outward
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “outer” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OUT'ER, adjective
[comparative of out.]
Being on the outside; external; opposed to inner; as the outer wall; the outer part of a thing; the outer court or gate.
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.