chitson · outer, outside

What it means

chitson (חִיצוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “outer, outside”.

What faces outward or is on the outside part. It can also mean what is not sacred, ordinary.

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. What is on the outside, like the outer court of the temple.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• outer ×20
• outside ×5

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Esther×1
• Ezekiel×18

• 1 Kings 6:29

  And all the walls of the house all around he carved with engravings of carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, inside and outside.

• 1 Kings 6:30

  And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, inside and outside.

• 2 Kings 16:18

  And the covered portico of the Sabbath that they had built in the house, and the outer entrance of the king, he changed in the house of YHWH because of the king of Assyria.

• 1 Chronicles 26:29

  Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outside work over Israel, as supervisors and judges.

• 2 Chronicles 33:14

  After this he built an outer wall for the city of David, west of Gihon, in the brook, and to the entrance at the Fish Gate, and he surrounded the Ophel and raised it very high. He put commanders of forces in all the fortified cities of Judah.

• Nehemiah 11:16

  and Shabbethai and Jozabad, over the outside work of the house of Elohim, of the heads of the Levites;

• Esther 6:4

  And the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had come to the outer court of the king’s house to say to the king to hang Mordecai on the pole that he had prepared for him.

• Ezekiel 10:5

  And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of El Shaddai when he speaks.

• 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 40:20

  And the gate that faced toward the north, belonging to the outer court, he measured its length and its width.

• Ezekiel 40:31

  And its porticoes faced the outer court, and palm trees were on its pilasters, and eight steps were its ascent.

• Ezekiel 40:34

  And its porticoes faced the outer court, and palm trees were on its pilasters, on this side and on that side, and eight steps were its ascent.

• Ezekiel 40:37

  And its pilasters faced the outer court, and palm trees were on its pilasters, on this side and on that side, and eight steps were its ascent.

• Ezekiel 41:17

  to the space above the entrance, and as far as the inner house, and outside, and on all the wall all around, inside and outside, by measures.

• Ezekiel 42:1

  And he brought me out into the outer court, by the way toward the north, and he brought me to the chamber that was opposite the separate area and that was opposite the building, toward the north.

• 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 42:7

  And the fence that was outside, parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, in front of the chambers, its length fifty cubits.

• Ezekiel 42:8

  For the length of the chambers that belonged to the outer court was fifty cubits; and look, in front of the temple, a hundred cubits.

• Ezekiel 42:9

  And below these chambers was the entrance from the east, as one goes in to them from the outer court.

• Ezekiel 42:14

  When the priests enter, they shall not go out from the sanctuary to the outer court, but there they shall lay down their garments in which they minister, for they are holy; and they shall put on other garments, and approach what is for the people.”

• Ezekiel 44:1

  And he brought me back by way of the outer gate of the sanctuary that faces east; and it was shut.

• Ezekiel 44:19

  And when they go out to the outer court, to the outer court, to the people, they shall take off their garments in which they minister, and they shall lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments, and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.

• Ezekiel 46:20

  And he said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the grain offering, so as not to bring them out into the outer court to sanctify the people.”

• Ezekiel 46:21

  And he brought me out into the outer court and led me across to the four corners of the court; and look, a court in a corner of the court, a court in a corner of the court.

And 1 more times.