Exodus 24:4
And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
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Pillars
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Revelation 10:1
And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
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Numbers
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Deuteronomy
11 verses
Judges
33 verses
1 Samuel
11 verses
1 Kings
1914 verses
2 Kings
33 verses
1 Chronicles
11 verses
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11 verses
Job
22 verses
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Song of Solomon
33 verses
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32 verses
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11 verses
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11 verses
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11 verses
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עַמּוּד
ʻammûwd · am-mood'
80 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.
Strong's first: Exodus 26:32Strong's last: Ezekiel 42:6
Open full H5982 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: Galatians 2:9Strong's last: Revelation 10:1
Open full G4769 profile →מַצֵּבָה
matstsêbâh · mats-tsay-baw'
2 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: Exodus 24:4Strong's last: Deuteronomy 12:3
Open full H4676 profile →תִּימָרָה
tîymârâh · tee-maw-raw'
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a column, i.e. cloud
Strong's KJV usage: pillar.
Strong's first: Song of Solomon 3:6Strong's last: Joel 2:30
Open full H8490 profile →אֹמְנָה
ʼômᵉnâh · om-me-naw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a column
Strong's KJV usage: pillar.
Strong's first: 2 Kings 18:16Strong's last: 2 Kings 18:16
Open full H547 profile →מִסְעָד
miçʻâd · mis-awd'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a balustrade (for stairs)
Strong's KJV usage: pillar.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 10:12Strong's last: 1 Kings 10:12
Open full H4552 profile →מָצוּק
mâtsûwq · maw-tsook'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
something narrow, i.e. a column or hilltop
Strong's KJV usage: pillar, situate.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 2:8Strong's last: 1 Samuel 2:8
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H8490
Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
H5982
He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.
H5982
His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
English meaning and historical usage.
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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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