H5835 עֲזָרָה (ʻăzârâh) az-aw-raw'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

enclosure

Strong's Definition

an inclosure; also a border

Derivation: from H5826 (עָזַר) in its original meaning of surrounding;

KJV Usage: court, settle.

TWOT Reference: 1599a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) enclosure

1a) ledge (surrounding Ezekiel's altar)

1b) court (outer one of temple)

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G833 G2413 G2435

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

עֲזָרָה (a.za.rah) — enclosure. 1) enclosure 1a) ledge (surrounding Ezekiel's altar) 1b) court (outer one of temple)

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

עֲזָרָה (H5835)

noun f · עזר

Constructions

courtyard = area enclosed by walls or buildings

2CH 4:9 · 2CH 4:9 · 2CH 6:13

Furnishings

ledge = a narrow horizontal surface projecting from the side of a construction

EZK 43:14 · EZK 43:14 · EZK 43:14 · EZK 43:17 · EZK 43:20 · EZK 45:19

Reinier de Blois

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

עֲזָרָה n.f. appar. enclosure ledge surrounding Ezekiel’s altar

outer court of temple

base

Bible Occurrences (6)

4:9 6:13

43:14 43:17 43:20 45:19

2 Chronicles 4:9

He made the courtyard of the priests and the large court with its doors..., and he overlaid the doors with bronze.

2 Chronicles 6:13

Now Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high and had placed it in the middle of the courtyard. He stood on it, knelt down...... before the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,

Ezekiel 43:14

The space from the gutter on the ground to the lower ledge [shall be] two cubits, and [the ledge] one cubit wide. [The space] from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge [shall be] four cubits, and [the ledge] one cubit wide.

Ezekiel 43:17

The ledge [shall also be] square......, fourteen [cubits]... long and fourteen [cubits]... wide, with a rim of half a cubit and a gutter of a cubit all around it -. The steps of the altar [shall] face east.

Ezekiel 43:20

You are to take some of its blood and put [it] on the four horns of the [altar], on the four corners of the ledge,... and all around the rim; thus you will cleanse the altar and make atonement for it.

Ezekiel 45:19

And the priest is to take some of the blood from the sin offering and put [it] on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the gateposts... of the inner court.