ulam · portico

What it means

ulam (אוּלָם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “portico”.

The covered entrance in front of the main hall of a building. In the temple, the vestibule through which one entered.

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. The covered entrance of the temple or palace.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• portico ×31
• porch ×2
• porticoes ×1

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×10
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×5
• Ezekiel×17
• Joel×1

• 1 Kings 6:3

  And the portico in front of the temple of the house: twenty cubits was its length, along the width of the house; ten cubits was its width in front of the house.

• 1 Kings 7:6

  And the portico of the Pillars he made: fifty cubits its length, and thirty cubits its width; and a portico in front of them, with pillars and a canopy in front of them.

• 1 Kings 7:7

  And the portico of the Throne, where he would judge, the portico of Judgment, he made; and it was roofed with cedar from the floor to the floor.

• 1 Kings 7:8

  And his house where he would live, in the other court inside the portico, was like this work. And a house he made for the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Solomon had taken, like this portico.

• 1 Kings 7:12

  And the great court all around had three rows of hewn stone and a row of beams of cedar, as also for the inner court of the house of YHWH and the portico of the house.

• 1 Kings 7:19

  And the capitals that were on the head of the pillars were lily work in the portico, four cubits.

• 1 Kings 7:21

  And he set up the pillars at the portico of the temple; and he set up the right pillar and called its name Jachin; and he set up the left pillar and called its name Boaz.

• 1 Chronicles 28:11

  David gave Solomon his son the pattern of the portico and of its houses, its treasure rooms, its upper rooms, its inner chambers, and of the house of the cover of expiation;

• 2 Chronicles 3:4

  The portico that was at the front, along the length, across the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it inside with pure gold.

• 2 Chronicles 8:12

  Then Solomon offered up burnt offerings to YHWH on the altar of YHWH that he had built before the portico,

• 2 Chronicles 15:8

  When Asa heard these words and the prophecy, Oded the prophet, he grew strong and removed the detestable things from all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and from the cities that he had captured from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of YHWH that was in front of the portico of YHWH.

• 2 Chronicles 29:7

  They also shut the doors of the portico and put out the lamps, and incense they did not burn, and burnt offering they did not offer in the Holy Place to the Elohim of Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 29:17

  They began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the portico of YHWH; and they sanctified the house of YHWH in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.

• Ezekiel 8:16

  And he brought me to the inner court of the house of YHWH, and look, at the entrance of the temple of YHWH, between the porch and the altar, about twenty-five men, their backs toward the temple of YHWH and their faces eastward, and they were bowing down eastward to the sun.

• Ezekiel 40:7

  And the guardroom, one reed long and one reed wide; and between the guardrooms, five cubits; and the threshold of the gate beside the portico of the gate on the house side, one reed.

• Ezekiel 40:8

  And he measured the portico of the gate on the house side, one reed.

• Ezekiel 40:9

  And he measured the portico of the gate, eight cubits, and its pilasters, two cubits; and the portico of the gate was on the house side.

• Ezekiel 40:15

  And from the front of the gate of entrance to the front of the portico of the inner gate, fifty cubits.

• Ezekiel 40:39

  And in the portico of the gate were two tables on this side and two tables on that side, to slaughter on them the burnt offering and the sin offering and the guilt offering.

• Ezekiel 40:40

  And on the side, outside, as one goes up to the entrance of the north gate, were two tables; and on the other side that belonged to the portico of the gate, two tables.

• Ezekiel 40:48

  And he brought me to the portico of the house, and measured the pilaster of the portico, five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side; and the width of the gate, three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side.

• Ezekiel 40:49

  The length of the portico, twenty cubits, and the width, eleven cubits; and by the steps by which they went up to it; and there were pillars beside the pilasters, one on this side and one on that side.

• 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 41:25

  And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm trees, like those made on the walls; and there was a canopy of wood in front of the portico outside.

• Ezekiel 41:26

  And there were closed windows and palm trees on this side and on that side, on the sides of the portico, and the side chambers of the house, and the canopies.

• Ezekiel 44:3

  As for the chief, because he is chief, he shall sit in it to eat bread before YHWH; by way of the portico of the gate he shall enter, and by its way he shall go out.”

• Ezekiel 46:2

  And the chief shall come in by way of the portico of the gate from outside and stand by the doorpost of the gate, and the priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings; and he shall bow down on the threshold of the gate, and go out; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

• Ezekiel 46:8

  And when the chief comes in, by way of the portico of the gate he shall come in, and by his way he shall go out.

• Joel 2:17

  Between the porch and the altar let the priests, the ministers of YHWH, weep, and let them say, “Have pity, YHWH, on your people, and do not make your inheritance a reproach, for the nations to mock them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their Elohim?’”

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