Beam
כָּרֻתָהStrong’s H3773karutah (ka-ru-tah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Karutah is the Hebrew word usually translated “beams of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.”
Meaning
- Beams, hewn beams
How it's translated
- beams of 2
- and beams of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 7:2He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
- 1 Kings 7:12And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.
Hebrew dictionary
כָּרֻתָה karutah · beam
beams, hewn beams
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “beam” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BEAM, noun
[We see by the Gothic, that the word belongs to Class Bg. It properly signifies the stock or stem of a tree; that is, the fixed, firm part.]
- The largest, or a principal piece in a building, that lies across the walls, and serves to support the principal rafters.
- Any large piece of timber, long in proportion to its thickness, and squared, or hewed for use.
- The part of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended; sometimes used for the whole apparatus for weighing.
- The part on the head of a stag, which bears the antlers, royals and tops.
All definitions
- The pole of a carriage, which runs between the horses.
- A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; and this name is given also to the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is wove.
- The straight part or shank of an anchor.
- In ships, a great main cross timber, which holds the sides of a ship from falling together.
- The main piece of a plow, in which the plow-tails are fixed, and by which it is drawn.
- beam compass, an instrument consisting of a square wooden or brass beam having sliding sockets, that carry steel or pencil points; used for describing large circles, and in large projections for drawing the furniture on wall-dials.
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.