רִצְפָּהritspâh
ִרצְפָה: pavement (Ezekiel 40:17; Esther 1:6; Ezekiel 40:18; Ezekiel 42:3; 2 Chronicles 7:3)
Pronunciation: rits-paw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7531
Meanings
רִצְפָּה: glowing stone (or coal) (Isaiah 6:6; 1 Kings 19:6)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 8 times in the Bible.
- 2 Chronicles 7:3 When all the people of Israel saw the fire coming down and the glorious presence of the Lord filling the Temple, they fell face down on the ground and worshiped and praised the Lord, saying, “He is good! His faithful love endures forever!”
- Esther 1:6 The courtyard was beautifully decorated with white cotton curtains and blue hangings, which were fastened with white linen cords and purple ribbons to silver rings embedded in marble pillars. Gold and silver couches stood on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and other costly stones.
- Isaiah 6:6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs.
- Ezekiel 40:17 Then the man brought me through the gateway into the outer courtyard of the Temple. A stone pavement ran along the walls of the courtyard, and thirty rooms were built against the walls, opening onto the pavement.
- Ezekiel 40:18 This pavement flanked the gates and extended out from the walls into the courtyard the same distance as the gateway entrance. This was the lower pavement.
- Ezekiel 42:3 One block of rooms overlooked the 35-foot width of the inner courtyard. Another block of rooms looked out onto the pavement of the outer courtyard. The two blocks were built three levels high and stood across from each other.
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).