Rank
שְׂדֵרָהStrong’s H7713sederah (se-de-rah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sederah is the Hebrew word usually translated “ranks” and “planks”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.”
Meaning
- Row, rank (of soldiers)rows, ranks · technical term of building
How it's translated
- the ranks 2
- and planks 1
- to the ranks 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 2
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 11:8And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in.
- 2 Kings 11:15But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 23:14Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the house of the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
שְׂדֵרָה sederah · rank
1) row, rank (of soldiers) 1a) rows, ranks 1b) technical term of building 1b1) meaning unknown
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “plank” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PLANK, noun
A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. In America, broad pieces of sawed timber which are not more than an inch or an inch and a quarter thick, are called boards; like pieces from an inch and a half to three or four inches thick, are called planks. Sometimes pieces more than four inches thick are called planks.
All definitions and other forms of “plank”
PLANK, verb transitive
To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or 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.