כְּתַלkᵉthal
wall (Daniel 5:5; Ezra 5:8)
Pronunciation: keth-al' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3797
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 2 times in the Bible.
- Ezra 5:8 “The king should know that we went to the construction site of the Temple of the great God in the province of Judah. It is being rebuilt with specially prepared stones, and timber is being laid in its walls. The work is going forward with great energy and success.
- Daniel 5:5 Suddenly, they saw the fingers of a human hand writing on the plaster wall of the king’s palace, near the lampstand. The king himself saw the hand as it wrote,
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).