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u.lam H197

אוּלָם (u.lam) means “Hall (of pillars)” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

אוּלָם Hebrew · H197 34 tagged occurrences in 29 verses

Pronunciation guide: oo-lawm' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H0197G

אוּלָם · u.lam · Hall (of pillars)

A hall or porch in Solomon's palace

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TBESH · H0197H

אוּלָם · u.lam · Hall (of Justice)

A hall in Solomon's palace

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TBESH · H0197I

אוּלָם · u.lam · Hall (of the Throne)

A hall or porch in Solomon's temple

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TBESH · H0197J

אוּלָם · u.lam · Portico

A hall or porch of the temple

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

or (shortened), אֻלָם ; from H481 (אָלַם) (in the sense of tying); a vestibule (as bound to the building)

KJV glosses: porch.

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How translators render H197

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
the portico 11
of the portico 7
portico 2
a hall 1
and portico 1
and the portico 1
and the porticoes 1
at the portico 1
for the portico of the temple 1
hall 1
his colonnade 1
in the portico 1
inside the portico 1
the hall 1
with a portico 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
of the porch 10
the porch 5
and the porch 4
a porch 2
between the porch 2
in the porch 2
also the porch 1
and for the porch 1
and in the porch 1
and the porches 1
at the porch 1
he the porch 1
like unto this porch 1
me to the porch 1
they to the porch 1

Verses containing H197

Page 1 of 1. 29 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. 1 Kings 6:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple was twenty cubits long, extending across the width of the temple and projecting out ten cubits in front of the temple.

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  2. 1 Kings 7:6 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Solomon made his colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a portico in front of it and a canopy with pillars in front of the portico.

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  3. 1 Kings 7:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    In addition, he built a hall for the throne, the Hall of Justice, where he was to judge. It was paneled with cedar from floor to ceiling.

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  4. 1 Kings 7:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And the palace where Solomon would live, set further back, was of similar construction. He also made a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.

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  5. 1 Kings 7:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The great courtyard was surrounded by three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams, as were the inner courtyard and portico of the house of the LORD.

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  6. 1 Kings 7:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And the capitals atop the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, four cubits high.

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  7. 1 Kings 7:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Thus he set up the pillars at the portico of the temple. The pillar to the south he named Jachin, and the pillar to the north he named Boaz.

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  8. 1 Chronicles 28:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its buildings, storehouses, upper rooms, inner rooms, and the room for the mercy seat.

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  9. 2 Chronicles 3:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.

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  10. 2 Chronicles 8:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD he had built in front of the portico.

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  11. 2 Chronicles 15:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He then restored the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD’s temple.

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  12. 2 Chronicles 29:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They also shut the doors of the portico and extinguished the lamps. They did not burn incense or present burnt offerings in the Holy Place of the God of Israel.

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  13. 2 Chronicles 29:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they reached the portico of the LORD. For eight more days they consecrated the house of the LORD itself, finishing on the sixteenth day of the first month.

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  14. Ezekiel 8:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.

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  15. Ezekiel 40:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Each gate chamber was one rod long and one rod wide, and there were five cubits between the gate chambers. The inner threshold of the gate by the portico facing inward was one rod deep.

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  16. Ezekiel 40:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then he measured the portico of the gateway inside;

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  17. Ezekiel 40:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    it was eight cubits deep, and its jambs were two cubits thick. And the portico of the gateway faced the temple.

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  18. Ezekiel 40:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And the distance from the entrance of the gateway to the far end of its inner portico was fifty cubits.

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  19. Ezekiel 40:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Inside the portico of the gateway were two tables on each side, on which the burnt offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings were to be slaughtered.

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  20. Ezekiel 40:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Outside, as one goes up to the entrance of the north gateway, there were two tables on one side and two more tables on the other side of the gate’s portico.

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  21. Ezekiel 40:48 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Then he brought me to the portico of the temple and measured the side pillars of the portico to be five cubits on each side. The width of the gateway was fourteen cubits and its sidewalls were three cubits on either side.

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  22. Ezekiel 40:49 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The portico was twenty cubits wide and twelve cubits deep, and ten steps led up to it. There were columns by the side pillars, one on each side.

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  23. Ezekiel 41:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Next he measured the length of the building facing the temple courtyard at the rear of the temple, including its galleries on each side; it was a hundred cubits. The outer sanctuary, the inner sanctuary, and the porticoes facing the court,

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  24. Ezekiel 41:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Cherubim and palm trees like those on the walls were carved on the doors of the outer sanctuary, and there was a wooden canopy outside, on the front of the portico.

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  25. Ezekiel 41:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    There were beveled windows and palm trees on the sidewalls of the portico. The side rooms of the temple also had canopies.

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  26. Ezekiel 44:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Only the prince himself may sit inside the gateway to eat in the presence of the LORD. He must enter by way of the portico of the gateway and go out the same way.”

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  27. Ezekiel 46:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The prince is to enter from the outside through the portico of the gateway and stand by the gatepost, while the priests sacrifice his burnt offerings and peace offerings. He is to bow in worship at the threshold of the gate and then depart, but the gate must not be shut until evening.

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  28. Ezekiel 46:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When the prince enters, he shall go in through the portico of the gateway, and he shall go out the same way.

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  29. Joel 2:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”

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