Window
מֶחֱזָהStrong’s H4237mechezah (me-che-zah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mechezah is the Hebrew word usually translated “window”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.”
Meaning
- Light, window, place of seeing
How it's translated
- window 3
- and window 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 2
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מֶחֱזָה mechezah · window
light, window, place of seeing
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “window” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WINDOW, noun
[ G. The vulgar pronunciation is windor, as if from the Welsh gwyntdor, wind-door.]
- An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light, and of air when necessary.
- An aperture or opening.“A window shalt thou make to the ark” Genesis 6:16
- The frame or other thing that covers the aperture.
- An aperture; or rather the clouds or water-spouts.“The windows of heaven were opened” Genesis 7:11
All definitions and other forms of “window”
- Lattice or casement; or the network of wire used before the invention of glass. Judges 5:28
- Lines crossing each other.
WINDOW, verb transitive
- To furnish with windows.
- To place at a window [Unusual.]
- To break into openings. [Unusual.]
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.