Column
תִּימָרָהStrong’s H8490timarah (ti-ma-rah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Timarah is the Hebrew word usually translated “like columns of” and “columns of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?”
Meaning
- Pillar, columnpalm-like spreading at top
How it's translated
- like columns of 1
- and columns of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 1
- Joel 1
2 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
תִּימָרָה timarah · column
1) pillar, column 1a) palm-like spreading at top
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “column” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COLUMN, noun
- In architecture, a long round body of wood or stone, used to support or adorn a building, composed of a base, a shaft and a capital.
- An erect or elevated structure resembling a column in architecture; as the astronomical column at Paris, a kind of hollow tower with a spiral ascent to the top; gnomonic column a cylinder on which the hour of the day is indicated by the shadow of a style; military column among the Romans; triumphal column; etc.
- Any body pressing perpendicularly on its base, and of the same diameter as its base; as a column of water, air or mercury.
- In the military art, a large body of troops drawn up in order; as a solid column
All definitions
- Among printers, a division of a page; a perpendicular set of lines separated from another set by a line or blank space.
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.