Pillar
עַמּוּדStrong’s H5982ammud (am-mud)
Appears in 84 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ammud is the Hebrew word usually translated “pillars”, “pillars of” and “pillars their”. It appears in 84 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:”
Meaning
- Pillar, columnpillar · column, upright · column (of smoke)
How it's translated
- the pillars 32
- pillars of 11
- pillars their 9
- the pillar 8
- pillar of 7
- in a pillar of 6
- and pillars its 6
- pillars its 6
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 30
- 1 Kings 13
- Numbers 6
- 2 Chronicles 6
- Jeremiah 6
- 2 Kings 5
16 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 13:22He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
- Exodus 14:19And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:
- Exodus 14:24And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
- Exodus 26:32And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.
- Exodus 26:37And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.
- Exodus 27:10And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
All 84 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
עַמּוּד ammud · pillar
1) pillar, column 1a) pillar 1b) column, upright 1c) column (of smoke)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pillar” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PIL'LAR, noun
[Latin pila, a pile, a pillar a mortar and pestle. The Latin pila denotes a heap, or things thrown, put or driven together.]
- A kind or irregular column round an insulate, but deviating from the proportions of a just column.
- A supporter; that which sustains or upholds; that on which some superstructure rests. Galatians 2:9
- A monument raised to commemorate any person or remarkable transaction.“And Jacob set a pillar on her grave” Genesis 35:20
- Something resembling a pillar; as a pillar of salt. Genesis 19:26“So a pillar of a cloud, a pillar of fire” Exodus 13:21
All definitions
- Foundation; support. Job 9:6
- In ships, a square or round timber fixed perpendicularly under the middle of the beams for supporting the decks.
- In the manege, the center of the volta, ring or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
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.