Aramaic

Wall

כְּתַלStrong’s H3797

ketal (ke-tal)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Ketal is the Aramaic word usually translated “walls the” and “wall of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.”

Daniel 5:5 KJV

Meaning

A wall

How it's translated

in walls the 1
wall of 1

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

Where it's used most

Ezra 1
Daniel 1

2 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Ezra 5:8Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.

Aramaic dictionary

כְּתַל ketal · wall

a wall Aramaic of ko.tel (כֹּ֫תֶל "wall" H3796)

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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.