Pillar
חַמָּןStrong’s H2553chamman (cham-man)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chamman is the Hebrew word usually translated “incense altars your” and “incense altars”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.”
Meaning
- Incense altar, sun-pillar, idol, imageused in idolatrous worship
How it's translated
- incense altars your 3
- the incense altars 2
- and the incense altars 2
- and incense altars 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 3
- Isaiah 2
- Ezekiel 2
- Leviticus 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 14:5Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
- 2 Chronicles 34:4And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
- 2 Chronicles 34:7And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 17:8And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
- Isaiah 27:9By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
- Ezekiel 6:4And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
Hebrew dictionary
חַמָּן chamman · pillar
1) incense altar, sun-pillar, idol, image 1a) used in idolatrous worship
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pillar” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PIL'LAR, noun
[Latin pila, a pile, a pillar a mortar and pestle. The Latin pila denotes a heap, or things thrown, put or driven together.]
- A kind or irregular column round an insulate, but deviating from the proportions of a just column.
- A supporter; that which sustains or upholds; that on which some superstructure rests. Galatians 2:9
- A monument raised to commemorate any person or remarkable transaction.“And Jacob set a pillar on her grave” Genesis 35:20
- Something resembling a pillar; as a pillar of salt. Genesis 19:26“So a pillar of a cloud, a pillar of fire” Exodus 13:21
All definitions
- Foundation; support. Job 9:6
- In ships, a square or round timber fixed perpendicularly under the middle of the beams for supporting the decks.
- In the manege, the center of the volta, ring or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
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.