atuk · gallery, terrace

What it means

atuk (אַתּוּק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “gallery, terrace”.

A ledge or set-back level of a building, a gallery.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A stepped gallery of a building.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• terraces ×3
• terrace ×2

Where it appears

• Ezekiel 41:15

  And he measured the length of the building in front of the separate area that was at its back, and its terraces on this side and on that side, a hundred cubits; and the inner temple and the porticoes of the court;

• Ezekiel 41:16

  the thresholds and the closed windows and the terraces all around for the three of them, opposite the threshold, paneled with wood all around, and from the floor to the windows, and the windows were covered;

• Ezekiel 42:3

  Opposite the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement that belonged to the outer court, terrace facing terrace in three stories.

• Ezekiel 42:5

  And the upper chambers were shorter, because the terraces took space from them more than from the lower ones and the middle ones of the building.

And 1 more times.