Ceiling
סִפֻּןStrong’s H5604sippun (sip-pun)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Sippun is the Hebrew word usually translated “ceiling”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.”
Meaning
- Cover, cover in, panel, wainscotting
How it's translated
- the ceiling 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
סִפֻּן sippun · ceiling
cover, cover in, panel, wainscotting
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ceiling” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CEILING, participle present
tense Covering the top of a room or building.
All definitions and other forms of “ceiling”
CEILING, noun
- The covering which overlays the inner roof of a building, or the timbers which form the top of a room.
- In ship building, the inside planks of a ship.
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.