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Entrance

אִיתוֹןStrong’s H2978

yeiton (ye-i-ton)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Yeiton is the Hebrew word usually translated “entrance”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.”
Ezekiel 40:15 KJV
Meaning
  1. Entrance
How it's translated
  • the entrance 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Ezekiel 1

1 book in all.

Related words
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    Hebrew dictionary

    אִיתוֹן yeiton · entrance

    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.]

    1. The act of entering into a place; as the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment.
    2. The power of entering.
    3. 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
    4. Commencement; initiation; beginning.
    All definitions
    1. The act of taking possession, as of land; as the entrance of an heir or a disseizor into lands and tenements.
    2. The act of taking possession, as of an office.
    3. The act of entering a ship or goods at the custom-house.
    4. 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.