Pavement
רִצְפָּהStrong’s H7531ritspah (rits-pah)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ritspah is the Hebrew word usually translated “pavement”, “pavement of” and “live coal”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.”
Meaning
- Pavement
- Hot stone, glowing stone or coal, flame, firebolt, spark
How it's translated
- the pavement 3
- a pavement of 1
- a live coal 1
- and a pavement 1
- and the pavement 1
- pavement 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 3
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Esther 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Esther 1:6Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.
- Isaiah 6:6Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
- Ezekiel 40:17Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement.
- Ezekiel 40:18And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement.
- Ezekiel 42:3Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.
Hebrew dictionary
רִצְפָּה ritspah · pavement
pavement
רֶצֶף retseph · coal
hot stone, glowing stone or coal, flame, firebolt, spark Another spelling of rits.pah (רִצְפָּה "glowing stone" H7531B)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pavement” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PA'VEMENT, noun
[Latin pavimentum.]
A floor or covering consisting of stones or bricks, laid on the earth in such a manner as to make a hard and convenient passage; as a pavement of pebbles, of bricks, or of marble.
All definitions and other forms of “pavement”
PA'VEMENT, verb transitive
To pave; to floor with stone or brick. [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.