BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H8179
sha.ar — gate
: gate 1) gate 1a) gate (of entrance) 1b) gate (of space inside gate, i.e. marketplace, public meeting place) 1b1) city, town 1c) gate (of palace, royal castle, temple, court of tabernacle) 1d) heaven
243 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H2674
cha.tsor — Hazor
Hazor = "castle" a royal city of northern Palestine allotted to Naphtali Also named: chets.ron (חֶצְרוֹן "Hezron" H2696J)
17 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1002
bi.rah — palace
1) palace, castle 2) temple Aramaic equivalent: bi.ra (בִּירְתָא "citadel" H1001)
16 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1001
bi.ra — citadel
castle, citadel, palace Aramaic of bi.rah (בִּירָה "palace" H1002)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G6737
glaux — owl
the owl , so called from its glaring eyes (see. γλαυκός, and compare σκώψ); γλαῦκ᾽ Ἀθήναζε, γλαῦκk εἰς Ἀθήνας sεθυαλσl ;carry coals to Newcastle, " (Aristophanes Comicus): Athen. silver coins were called γλαῦκες, because they were stamped with an owl , (Aristophanes Comicus) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →A military fortress (1 Chr. 11:7), also probably a kind of tower used by the priests for making known anything discovered at a distance (1 Chr. 6:54). Castles are also mentioned (Gen. 25:16) as a kind of watch-tower, from which shepherds kept watch over their flocks by night. The “castle” into which the chief captain commanded Paul to be brought was the quarters of the Roman soldiers in the fortress of Antonia (so called by Herod after his patron Mark Antony), which was close to the north-west corner of the temple (Acts 21:34), which it commanded.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
