ritspa · pavement; glowing stone

What it means

ritspa (רִצְפָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pavement; glowing stone”.

Pavement: a floor covered with stone slabs. The same word can also name a hot stone or glowing coal (Isaiah 6:6).

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 glowing stone.
2. A floor made of stone slabs.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• pavement ×7
• was a burning coal ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 2 Chronicles×1
• Esther×1
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×5

• 2 Chronicles 7:3

  All the sons of Israel were watching the fire come down and the glory of YHWH upon the house, and they knelt with their faces to the ground on the pavement, and bowed down and gave thanks to YHWH, “For he is good, for his loyal love is forever.”

• Esther 1:6

  There was white cloth, cotton and blue, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to rings of silver and columns of marble; couches of gold and silver on a pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and dark stone.

• Isaiah 6:6

  Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from on the altar.

• Ezekiel 40:17

  And he brought me into the outer court, and look, chambers and a pavement made for the court all around; thirty chambers on the pavement.

• Ezekiel 40:18

  And the pavement was beside the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates, the lower pavement.

• 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.

And 2 more times.