אֵילָםʼêylâm

porch (Ezekiel 40:37; Ezekiel 40:22; Ezekiel 41:15; Ezekiel 40:21; Ezekiel 40:16)

Pronunciation: ay-lawm' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H361

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 15 times in the Bible.

  • Ezekiel 40:16 There were recessed windows that narrowed inward through the walls of the guard alcoves and their dividing walls. There were also windows in the entry room. The surfaces of the dividing walls were decorated with carved palm trees.
  • Ezekiel 40:21 Here, too, there were three guard alcoves on each side, with dividing walls and an entry room. All the measurements matched those of the east gateway. The gateway passage was 87 1⁄2 feet long and 43 3⁄4 feet wide between the back walls of facing guard alcoves.
  • Ezekiel 40:22 The windows, the entry room, and the palm tree decorations were identical to those in the east gateway. There were seven steps leading up to the gateway entrance, and the entry room was at the inner end of the gateway passage.
  • Ezekiel 40:24 Then the man took me around to the south gateway and measured its various parts, and they were exactly the same as in the others.
  • Ezekiel 40:25 It had windows along the walls as the others did, and there was an entry room where the gateway passage opened into the outer courtyard. And like the others, the gateway passage was 87 1⁄2 feet long and 43 3⁄4 feet wide between the back walls of facing guard alcoves.
  • Ezekiel 40:26 This gateway also had a stairway of seven steps leading up to it, and an entry room at the inner end, and palm tree decorations along the dividing walls.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).