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.
GREEK · G21091
sēkos — weight
1. a pen, fold , for lambs, kids, calves, (Homer); ς. δράκοντος the dragon's den , (Euripides) 2. a sacred enclosure, chapel, shrine , (Sophocles Tragicus) 3. a sepulchre, burial-place , (Simonides Lyricus) 4. the trunk of an old olive-tree , (Lysias Orator) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →A holy place or sanctuary, occurs only in Amos 7:13, where one of the idol priests calls Bethel “the king’s chapel.”
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
