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# אֵילָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H361

**porch** — used 49 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

porch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/361/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵילָם: n.m. porch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/361/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. porch (= אוּלָם, q.v.; only Ez, where Co always for אוּלָם, cf. 𝔊 αἰλαμ; BöNÄ 929 makes אילם vestibule, אולם porch)—אֵילָם read for אֵילִים Ez 40:37 (so Sm Co); sf. אילמו Kt Ez 40:22(×2) + 4 times (Qr אֵילַמָּיו) + 41:15 Co (for MT אֻלַמֵּי); אלמו Kt Ez 40:21 + 6 times (Qr אֵלַמָּיו).—Co all sg.:—pl. אֵלַמּוֹת Ez 40:16 (Co sg.) v 30 (del. Co cf. MSS. of ℌ, B etc., also Ew Hi Sm).—porch, of Ezek.’s temple Ez 40:16, 21 + 13 times.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the porch (20); porches (15); porch (8).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 40:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.40.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.40.8/#tree)

וַיָּ֜מָד אֶת־אֻלָ֥ם הַשַּׁ֛עַר מֵהַבַּ֖יִת קָנֶ֥ה אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* and he.measured (et) the.porch of the.gate from the house a.reed one

*JPS 1917:* He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.

[Ezekiel 40:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.40.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.40.30/#tree)

וְאֵֽלַמּ֖וֹת סָבִ֣יב ׀ סָבִ֑יב אֹ֗רֶךְ חָמֵ֤שׁ וְעֶשְׂרִים֙ אַמָּ֔ה וְרֹ֖חַב חָמֵ֥שׁ אַמּֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and porches \[were\].all.around all.around \[the\].length \[was\].five and twenty cubit\[s\] and.\[the\] breadth \[was\].five cubits

*JPS 1917:* And there were arches round about, five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/361.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/361/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).