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Conduit

תְּעָלָהStrong’s H8585

tealah (te-a-lah)

Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Tealah is the Hebrew word usually translated “at conduit of”, “healing” and “trench”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.

“And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.”
1 Kings 18:32 KJV
Meaning
  1. Conduit, water course, trench
  2. Healing (of new flesh and skin forming over wound)(CLBL) bandage, plaister (for healing of wound)
How it's translated
  • at conduit of 2
  • healing 2
  • a trench 1
  • the trench 1
  • in the trench 1
  • the conduit 1
  • a channel 1
  • conduit of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 1 Kings 3
  • 2 Kings 2
  • Isaiah 2
  • Jeremiah 2
  • Job 1
  • Ezekiel 1

6 books in all.

Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary

תְּעָלָה tealah · conduit

conduit, water course, trench

תְּעָלָה tealah · healing

1) healing (of new flesh and skin forming over wound) 1a) (CLBL) bandage, plaister (for healing of wound)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “conduit” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

CONDUIT, noun

[Latin, to conduct.]

  1. A canal or pipe for the conveyance of water; an aqueduct.
  2. A vessel that conveys the blood or other fluid.
  3. A conductor.
  4. A pipe or cock for drawing off liquor.
All definitions
  1. Any channel that conveys water or fluids; a sink, sewer or drain.

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.