90 occurrences

'Pillars' in the Bible

Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and break in pieces their pillars.

Verse ConceptsAbolitionServanthood, And Worship Of GodStonesNot Imitating EvilDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisksDo Not Have Other godsHow Not To Worshipstatues

And Moses wrote all the words of Jehovah, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

Verse ConceptsAltarsThe Number TwelveBuildingMoses, Significance OfPillarsRising EarlyMorning DevotionsObelisksThose Who Rose EarlyTwelve Tribes

And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks'shall be of gold, upon four sockets of silver.

Verse ConceptsHooksFour SupportsPillars For The TabernacleOverlaid With GoldSocketsGold Items For The Tabernacl

And thou shalt make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold: their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.

Verse ConceptsAcacia WoodFive ThingsPillars For The TabernacleOverlaid With GoldSocketsGold Items For The TabernaclBronze Items For The Tabernacle

and the pillars thereof shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets'shall be of silver.

Verse ConceptsTwentyBronze Items For The Tabernacle

And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings a hundred cubits long, and the pillars thereof twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.

Verse ConceptsTwentyPillars For The TabernacleBronze Items For The Tabernacle

And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

Verse ConceptsWestTen ThingsWest Sides

The hangings for the one side of the gate'shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

Verse ConceptsThree Other ThingsDimensions Of Other Things

And for the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

Verse ConceptsThree Other ThingsDimensions Of Other Things

And for the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four.

Verse ConceptsembroideryFour SupportsPillars For The TabernacleRed MaterialBlue ClothPurple ClothMulti ColouredDimensions Of Other ThingsBlue Purple And Scarlet

All the pillars of the court round about shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass.

Verse ConceptsSilverBronze Items For The Tabernacle

but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim;

Verse ConceptsAbolitionStonesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisks

the tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its clasps, and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;

Verse ConceptsHooksBoardsPillars For The TabernacleCovering The TabernacleSocketsTenons And Bars

the hangings of the court, the pillars thereof, and their sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court;

Verse ConceptsPillars For The TabernacleSockets

And he made thereunto four pillars of acacia, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; And he cast for them four sockets of silver.

Verse ConceptsFour SupportsPillars For The TabernacleOverlaid With GoldSocketsGold Items For The Tabernacl

and the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold; and their five sockets were of brass.

Verse ConceptsFive ThingsPillars For The TabernacleOverlaid With GoldSocketsGold Items For The TabernaclBronze Items For The Tabernacle

their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.

Verse ConceptsTwentyBronze Items For The Tabernacle

And for the north side a hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.

Verse ConceptsCraftsmenTwentyBronze Items For The Tabernacle

And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.

Verse ConceptsTen ThingsWest Sides

The hangings for the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three;

Verse ConceptsThree Other Things

and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

Verse ConceptsThree Other Things

And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver; and the overlaying of their capitals, of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.

Verse ConceptsSilverOverlaid With SilverBronze Items For The Tabernacle

And their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.

Verse ConceptsFour SupportsPillars For The TabernacleOverlaid With SilverBronze Items For The Tabernacle

And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five'shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.

Verse ConceptsOverlaid With Silver

And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the Tent, and all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, it bars, and its pillars, and it sockets;

Verse ConceptsBoardsPillars For The TabernacleSocketsTenons And Bars

the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court, the cords thereof, and the pins thereof, and all the instruments of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting;

Verse ConceptsRopesTentsPegsPillars For The TabernacleSocketsGates Of The Temple

And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up its pillars.

Verse ConceptsThe Tabernacle

And the appointed charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the instruments thereof, and all the service thereof,

and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.

Verse ConceptsPegs

And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tent of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof,

Verse ConceptsBoards

and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name ye shall appoint the instruments of the charge of their burden.

Verse ConceptsTentsPegs

But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsShrinesStonesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisksBurning Idolatrous Things

and ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods; and ye shall destroy their name out of that place.

Verse ConceptsStonesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisksBurning Idolatrous ThingsNames Blotted OutstatuesgenocideHinduism

And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison-house; and he made sport before them. And they set him between the pillars:

Verse ConceptsAmusementsLeisure, And PastimesRecreationRevelryMaking FunSports

and Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house resteth, that I may lean upon them.

Verse ConceptsTaking By The Hand

And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house rested, and leaned upon them, the one with his right hand, and the other with his left.

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, He lifteth up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, And inherit the throne of glory: For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah's, And he hath set the world upon them.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsEarth, Belonging To GodDust, Figurative UseGod, The ProviderOppression, God's Attitude ToPrincesThroneGloryGod And The PoorMetaphorical PillarsGod Lifting PeopleRubbishGod Helps The PoorThe poordust

For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was a hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

Verse ConceptsBeamsForestsBreadthBuildingFour SupportsRoyal HousesDimensions Of BuildingsCedar Wood

And it was covered with cedar above over the forty and five beams, that were upon the pillars; fifteen in a row.

Verse ConceptsFifteenForties

And he made the porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits; and a porch before them; and pillars and a threshold before them.

Verse ConceptsHousesHallsDimensions Of Buildings

For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits compassed either of them about.

Verse ConceptsThe Number TwelveDimensions Of PillarsHollownessTwo Parts Of ConstructionsHollowBronze Items For The Tabernacle

And he made two capitals of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of PillarsBronze Items For The Tabernacle

There were nets of checker-work, and wreaths of chain-work, for the capitals which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital.

Verse ConceptsChainsNetsSeven Things

So he made the pillars; and there were two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars: and so did he for the other capital.

Verse ConceptsPomegranates

And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work, four cubits.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Pillars

And there were capitals above also upon the two pillars, close by the belly which was beside the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred, in rows round about upon the other capital.

Verse ConceptsPomegranatesThe Number Two Hundred

And he set up the pillars at the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin; and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.

Verse ConceptsPillarsPillars For Solomon's TempleRight SidesLeft Hand SidePeople Naming Things

And upon the top of the pillars was lily-work: so was the work of the pillars finished.

the two pillars, and the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;

Verse ConceptsPillars For Solomon's TempleTwo Parts Of ConstructionsTop Of Things

and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were upon the pillars;

Verse ConceptsFour To Five HundredPomegranatesFour And Five Hundred

And the king made of the almug-trees pillars for the house of Jehovah, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for the singers: there came no such almug-trees, nor were seen, unto this day.

Verse ConceptsHarpsLyreSingingMusical Instruments, Made OfLyres

For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;

Verse ConceptsHillsSacred PlacesPolytheismObelisksServing Asherah

And they brought forth the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and burned them.

Verse ConceptsObelisksBurning Idolatrous Things

and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree;

Verse ConceptsHillsShrinesStonesObelisksServing AsherahWorship At Trees

He removed the high places, and brake the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

Verse ConceptsAbolitionHigh PlacesLeaders, PoliticalReformationShrinesThe Bronze SnakeSnakesStonesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisksAbandoning IdolsBronze For IdolsMemorabilia

At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of Jehovah, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

Verse ConceptsGoldSacrilegeOverlaid With GoldMoney For The Temple

And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

Verse ConceptsStonesObelisksBones

And the pillars of brass that were in the house of Jehovah, and the bases and the brazen sea that were in the house of Jehovah, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.

Verse ConceptsPossessions Taken To BabylonSeaSacrilegeBreaking ContainersPillars For Solomon's TempleAmassing BronzeBronze Items For The Tabernacle

The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made for the house of Jehovah, the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

Verse ConceptsPillars For Solomon's TempleAmassing BronzeTwo Parts Of Constructions

And from Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadarezer, David took very much brass, wherewith Solomon made the brazen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.

Verse ConceptsPillars For Solomon's TempleAmassing Bronze

Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

Verse ConceptsTwo Parts Of Constructions

And he made chains in the oracle, and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made a hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.

Verse ConceptsFruitChainsPomegranatesOne Hundred

And he set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.

Verse ConceptsPillars For Solomon's Temple

the two pillars, and the bowls, and the two capitals which were on the top of the pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars,

Verse ConceptsPillars For Solomon's TempleTwo Parts Of Constructions

and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were upon the pillars.

Verse ConceptsFour To Five HundredPomegranatesFour And Five Hundred

for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and brake down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim,

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesShrinesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisks

Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake in pieces the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and brake down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

Verse ConceptsAbolitionHigh PlacesLeaders, PoliticalReformationSacrifice, In OtStonesAnnihilationDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisks

There were hangings of white cloth , of green, and of blue, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the couches were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and white, and yellow, and black marble.

Verse ConceptsBedsTapestriesCordsWhite ClothsPurple ClothPavementsStone Items

The pillars of heaven tremble And are astonished at his rebuke.

Verse ConceptsPillarsRebukeTremblingMetaphorical Pillarsrebuking

The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I have set up the pillars of it. Selah

Verse ConceptsearthquakesPillarsMetaphorical PillarsPsalm Interjections

Wisdom hath builded her house; She hath hewn out her seven pillars:

Verse ConceptsSeven ThingsMetaphorical Pillars

Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness Like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all powders of the merchant?

Verse ConceptsCommerceA Time For LoveSmoke Used Poetically

He made the pillars thereof of silver, The bottom thereof of gold, the seat of it of purple, The midst thereof being paved with love, From the daughters of Jerusalem.

His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: His aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

Verse ConceptsThings Like Gold

And the pillars of Egypt'shall be broken in pieces; all they that work for hire'shall be grieved in soul.

Verse ConceptsWagesPoolsMetaphorical Pillars

For thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that are left in this city,

Verse ConceptsPillars For Solomon's Temple

He shall also break the pillars of Beth-shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of Egypt shall he burn with fire.

Verse ConceptsThe SunObelisksBurning Idolatrous ThingsBroken ThingsWorship Of The Sun

And the pillars of brass that were in the house of Jehovah, and the bases and the brazen sea that were in the house of Jehovah, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.

Verse ConceptsPossessions Taken To BabylonPillars For Solomon's Temple

The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve brazen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for the house of Jehovah-the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

Verse ConceptsThe Number TwelveAnimals, Types OfTwo Parts Of ConstructionsTwelve Animals

And as for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.

Verse ConceptsFingersWeights And Measures, LinearDimensions Of PillarsBreadthHollownessHollow

With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets; he shall slay thy people with the sword; and the pillars of thy strength shall go down to the ground.

Verse ConceptsMetaphorical PillarsKilled With The SwordUsing RoadsFeet Of CreaturesThings FallingTrampling Places

The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; even by the steps whereby they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.

Verse ConceptsStairwaysTen ThingsDimensions Of ChambersPillars For Ezekiel's TempleSteps

For they were in three stories, and they had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the uppermost was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.

Verse ConceptsDecksPillars For Ezekiel's TempleThree Parts Of Constructions

Israel is a luxuriant vine, that putteth forth his fruit: according to the abundance of his fruit he hath multiplied his altars; according to the goodness of their land they have made goodly pillars.

Verse ConceptsPeace, Human Search ForVinesAltars, PaganSocial SelfishnessFertile LandObelisksBearing Fruit

Their heart is divided; now shall they be found guilty: he will smite their altars, he will destroy their pillars.

Verse ConceptsHeart, Of Unregenerate PeopleInstabilityLukewarmnessHalf HeartednessIndecisionDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisks

and I will cut off thy graven images and thy pillars out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thy hands;

Verse ConceptsBowingStonesObelisksBowing To False GodsIdolatryAbandoning Idolsstatues

and when they perceived the grace that was given unto me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, that we should go unto the Gentiles, and they unto the circumcision;

Verse ConceptsFellowship, In Christian ServiceFellowship, Among BelieversApostles, Function In Early ChurchGrace, And Christian LifePaul, Apostle To GentilesPillarsCompanionshipMissionary WorkMetaphorical PillarsBlessings For The Right HandThe Gospel To Jew And Gentilepartnership

And I saw another strong angel coming down out of heaven, arrayed with a cloud; and the rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire;

Verse ConceptsLegsPillarsRainbowsStrength Of AngelsObelisksHeavenly FacesTypes Of FeetAngels Doing God's WorkOthers Going DownDistinctive ClothingThe RainbowRainbow

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אמנה 
'om@nah 
Usage: 1

מסעד 
Mic`ad 
Usage: 1

מצּבה 
Matstsebah 
Usage: 32

מצּבת 
Matstsebeth 
Usage: 6

מצק מצוּק 
Matsuwq 
Usage: 2

נצב נציב 
N@tsiyb 
Usage: 11

עמּד עמּוּד 
`ammuwd 
Usage: 111

תּמרה תּימרה 
Tiymarah 
Usage: 2

στύλος 
Stulos 
Usage: 3

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