Study it in the app“And he built the house of the Forest of Lebanon: a hundred cubits its length, and fifty cubits its width, and thirty cubits its height, on four rows of pillars of cedar, with beams of cedar on the pillars.”
And he builtוַיִּבֶןthe houseאֶת בֵּיתof the Forestיַעַרof Lebanon:הַלְּבָנוֹןa hundredמֵאָהcubitsאַמָּהits length,אָרְכּוֹand fiftyוַחֲמִשִּׁיםcubitsאַמָּהits width,רָחְבּוֹand thirtyוּשְׁלֹשִׁיםcubitsאַמָּהits height,קוֹמָתוֹonעַלfourאַרְבָּעָהrowsטוּרֵיof pillarsעַמּוּדֵיof cedar,אֲרָזִיםwith beamsוּכְרֻתוֹתof cedarאֲרָזִיםonעַלthe pillars.הָעַמּוּדִים
build
To raise a house, a city or an altar, setting stone on stone.
Where else “yiven” appearshouse
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “bet” appearsforest
Land covered with trees, where many grow together.
Where else “yaar” appearsLebanon
See it on the mapWhere else “levanon” appearshundred
The amount of one hundred; with other numbers it forms two hundred, three hundred and the rest.
Where else “mea” appearscubit
About 45 centimeters: from the bent arm to the fingertips.
Where else “ama” appearslength
Length: "the length and the breadth".
Where else “ark” appearsfifty
Fifty.
Where else “chamishim” appearswidth
Width, breadth.
Where else “rachb” appearsthirty
Thirty; also "thirtieth".
Where else “sheloshim” appearsheight
Height.
Where else “komat” appearsfour
Four.
Where else “arbaa” appearsrow
Row, course (of stones or beams).
Where else “ture” appearspillar, column
Pillar, column; also a pillar of cloud or of fire.
Where else “amude” appearscedar
Cedar: a large tree with fragrant, lasting wood.
Where else “arazim” appearsbeam
Hewn beam: a timber already worked for building.
Where else “cherutot” appears“House of the Forest of Lebanon”: a building of the palace; the name may come from its many pillars of cedar from Lebanon (7:2-3).
Lebanon
Today: Lebanon (Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon ranges)
A mountain range north of Israel, famous for its cedars; today it gives its name to the country of Lebanon.
Solomon asked for cedar wood from Lebanon to build the temple (1 Kgs 5:6). The Psalms compare the righteous to its cedars (Ps 92:12).
1And his own house Solomon built in thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
2 · This verse (above)
3And it was roofed with cedar above, over the beams that were on the pillars: forty and five, fifteen to the row.
