Genesis 19:26
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
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Pillar
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Revelation 3:12
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
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12 occurrences in 9 verses.
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עַמּוּד
ʻammûwd · am-mood'
29 times translated as this KJV form110 total Strong's occurrences
a column (as standing); also a stand, i.e. platform
Strong's KJV usage: × apiece, pillar.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 13:21Strong's last: Jeremiah 52:22
Open full H5982 profile →מַצֵּבָה
matstsêbâh · mats-tsay-baw'
10 times translated as this KJV form32 total Strong's occurrences
something stationed, i.e. a column or (memorial stone); by analogy, an idol
Strong's KJV usage: garrison, (standing) image, pillar.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 28:18Strong's last: Isaiah 19:19
Open full H4676 profile →מַצֶּבֶת
matstsebeth · mats-tseh'-beth
4 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
something stationary, i.e. a monumental stone; also the stock of a tree
Strong's KJV usage: pillar, substance.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 35:14Strong's last: 2 Samuel 18:18
Open full H4678 profile →στῦλος
stŷlos · stoo'-los
2 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a post ("style"), i.e. (figuratively) support
Strong's KJV usage: :--pillar.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Timothy 3:15Strong's last: Revelation 3:12
Open full G4769 profile →נָצַב
nâtsab · naw-tsab'
1 times translated as this KJV form75 total Strong's occurrences
to station, in various applications (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: appointed, deputy, erect, establish, × Huzzah (by mistake for a proper name), lay, officer, pillar, present, rear up, set (over, up), settle, sharpen, establish, (make to) stand(-ing, still, up, upright), best state.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Judges 9:6Strong's last: Judges 9:6
Open full H5324 profile →נְצִיב
nᵉtsîyb · nets-eeb'
1 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
something stationary, i.e. a prefect, a military post, a statue
Strong's KJV usage: garrison, officer, pillar.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 19:26Strong's last: Genesis 19:26
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H5982
And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
H5982
And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
H5982
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.
H5982
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.
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pillar
PIL'LAR, noun [Latin pila, a pile, a pillar a mortar and pestle. The Latin pila denotes a heap, or things thrown, put or driven together.]
Literally, a pile or heap; hence,
1. A kind or irregular column round an insulate, but deviating from the proportions of a just column. Pillars are either too massive or too slender for regular architecture; they are not restricted to any rules, and their parts and proportions are arbitrary. A square pillar is a massive work, called also a pier or piedroit, serving to support arches. etc.
2. A supporter; that which sustains or upholds; that on which some superstructure rests. Galatians 2:9.
3. A monument raised to commemorate any person or remarkable transaction.
And Jacob set a pillar on her grave. Genesis 35:14. 2 Samuel 18:18.
4. Something resembling a pillar; as a pillar of salt. Genesis 19:26.
So a pillar of a cloud, a pillar of fire. Exodus 13:21.
5. Foundation; support. Job 9:6.
6. In ships, a square or round timber fixed perpendicularly under the middle of the beams for supporting the decks.
7. In the manege, the center of the volta, ring or manege ground, around which a horse turns. There are also pillars on the circumference or side, placed at certain distances by two and two.
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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