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The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.
Read in context →The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.
Read in context →6 occurrences in 6 verses.
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qârâh · kaw-raw'
to light upon (chiefly by accident); causatively, to bring about; specifically, to impose timbers (for roof or floor)
Strong's KJV usage: appoint, lay (make) beams, befall, bring, come (to pass unto), floor, (hap) was, happen (unto), meet, send good speed.
Strong's first: Nehemiah 2:8Strong's last: Psalms 104:3
Open full H7136 profile →kâruthâh · kaw-rooth-aw'
something cut, i.e. a hewn timber
Strong's KJV usage: beam.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 6:36Strong's last: 1 Kings 7:12
Open full H3773 profile →qôwrâh · ko-raw'
a rafter (forming trenches as it were); by implication, a roof
Strong's KJV usage: beam, roof.
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 3:7Strong's last: Song of Solomon 1:17
Open full H6982 profile →gêb · gabe
a log (as cut out); also well or cistern (as dug)
Strong's KJV usage: beam, ditch, pit.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 6:9Strong's last: 1 Kings 6:9
Open full H1356 profile →tsêlâʻ · tsay-law'
a rib (as curved), literally (of the body) or figuratively (of a door, i.e. leaf); hence, a side, literally (of a person) or figuratively (of an object or the sky, i.e. quarter); architecturally, a (especially floor or ceiling) timber or plank (single or collective, i.e. a flooring)
Strong's KJV usage: beam, board, chamber, corner, leaf, plank, rib, side (chamber).
Strong's first: 1 Kings 7:3Strong's last: 1 Kings 7:3
Open full H6763 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
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And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
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BEAM, noun [We see by the Gothic, that the word belongs to Class Bg. It properly signifies the stock or stem of a tree; that is, the fixed, firm part.]
1. The largest, or a principal piece in a building, that lies across the walls, and serves to support the principal rafters.
2. Any large piece of timber, long in proportion to its thickness, and squared, or hewed for use.
3. The part of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended; sometimes used for the whole apparatus for weighing.
4. The part on the head of a stag, which bears the antlers, royals and tops.
5. The pole of a carriage, which runs between the horses.
6. A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; and this name is given also to the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is wove.
7. The straight part or shank of an anchor.
8. In ships, a great main cross timber, which holds the sides of a ship from falling together. The beams support the decks and orlops. The main beam is next the mainmast.
9. The main piece of a plow, in which the plow-tails are fixed, and by which it is drawn.
10. beam compass, an instrument consisting of a square wooden or brass beam having sliding sockets, that carry steel or pencil points; used for describing large circles, and in large projections for drawing the furniture on wall-dials.
On the beam in navigation, signified any distance from the ship, on a line with the beams, or at right angles with the keel.
Before the beam is an arch of the horizon between a line that crosses the ship at right angles, or the line of the beam and that point of the compass which she steers.
BEAM ends. A vessel is said to be on her beam ends, when she inclines so much on one side that her beams approach a vertical position.
BEAM-feathers, in falconry, the long feathers of a hawk's wing.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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