HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H2474
חַלּוֹן
chal.lon — window
window (piercing of the wall)
18 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
Window
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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GREEK · G2985
λαμπάς
lampas — window
λαμπάς, -άδος, ἡ (λάμπω), [in LXX for לַפִּיד ;] a torch (frequently fed, like a lamp, with oil): Mat.25:1 ff., Jhn.18:3, Act.20:8, Rev.4:5 8:10.† (AS)
9 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H699
אֲרֻבָּה
a.rub.bah — window
1) lattice, window, sluice 2) (CLBL) chimney (lattice opening where smoke escapes)
9 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G2376
θυρίς
thuris — window
θυρίς, -ίδος, ἡ (dim, of θύρα), [in LXX chiefly for חַלּוֹן ;] a window: Act.20:9, 2Co.11:33.† (AS)
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H4237
מֶחֱזָה
me.che.zah — window
light, window, place of seeing
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3551
כַּוָּה
ka.vah — window
window
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H822
אֶשְׁנָב
esh.nav — lattice
window-lattice
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H8261
שָׁקוּף
sha.quph — frame
frame, casing (of windows), beams laid over, window frames
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H700
אֲרֻבּוֹת
a.rub.bot — Arubboth
§ Aruboth = "windows" a district marked by Solomon for tax purposes
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →Historical dictionary entry
Properly only an opening in a house for the admission of light and air, covered with lattice-work, which might be opened or closed (2 Kings 1:2; Acts 20:9). The spies in Jericho and Paul at Damascus were let down from the windows of houses abutting on the town wall (Josh. 2:15; 2 Cor. 11:33). The clouds are metaphorically called the “windows of heaven” (Gen. 7:11; Mal. 3:10). The word thus rendered in Isa. 54:12 ought rather to be rendered “battlements” (LXX., “bulwarks;” R.V., “pinnacles”), or as Gesenius renders it, “notched battlements, i.e., suns or rays of the sun”= having a radiated appearance like the sun.
Scripture references
2 Kings 1:2Acts 20:9Joshua 2:152 Corinthians 11:33Genesis 7:11Malachi 3:10Isaiah 54:12Judges 5:28Proverbs 7:6Ecclesiastes 12:3Hosea 13:3
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.