Porch
מִסְדְּרוֹןStrong’s H4528misderon (mis-de-ron)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Misderon is the Hebrew word usually translated “porch towards”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.”
Meaning
- Porch, colonnademeaning uncertain
How it's translated
- the porch towards 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מִסְדְּרוֹן misderon · porch
1) porch, colonnade 1a) meaning uncertain
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “porch” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PORCH, noun
[Latin porticus, from porta, a gate, entrance or passage, or from portus, a shelter.]
- In architecture, a kind of vestibule supported by columns at the entrance of temples, halls, churches or other buildings.
- A portico; a covered walk.
- By way of distinction, the porch was a public portico in Athens, where Zeno, the philosopher, taught his disciples.
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.