Wall
כֹּ֫תֶלStrong’s H3796kotel (ko-tel)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Kotel is the Hebrew word usually translated “wall our”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.”
Meaning
- Wall (of house)
How it's translated
- wall our 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
כֹּ֫תֶל kotel · wall
wall (of house) Aramaic equivalent: ke.tal (כְּתַל "wall" H3797)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wall” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WALL, noun
[Latin, stake, post, probably originally a fence of stakes, a palisade or stockade; the first rude fortification of uncivilized men.]
- A work or structure of stone, brick or other materials, raised to some highth, and intended for a defense or security.
- Walls, in the plural, is used for fortifications in general; works for defense.
- A defense; means of security or protection. 1 Samuel 25:16
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.