chuts · outside

What it means

chuts (חוּץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “outside”.

Outdoors; the street.

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 lies outside the house, the city or the camp.
2. The ways and squares between the houses, where people go about.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

What is outside: the outdoors; the street.

• Going outside Genesis 15:5Genesis 39:12
• “Outside the camp” Leviticus 4:12
• The streets of a city Jeremiah 11:6Psalms 18:42
• Wisdom cries aloud in the street Proverbs 1:20

Historical and cultural background

In Leviticus 4:12 the rest of the bull of the sin offering is brought “outside the camp, to a clean place”, and burned there.

How we translate it

“Outside” 109 times, “streets” 34, “street” 13, “fields” 3. With a preposition it is “outside”; as a noun, “street”.

How it is translated

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

• outside ×109
• streets ×34
• street ×13
• fields ×3
• apart ×1
• open country ×1
• out ×1
• outer ×1
• outward ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×12
• Exodus×10
• Leviticus×20
• Numbers×13
• Deuteronomy×8
• Joshua×2
• Judges×3
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×4
• 1 Kings×6
• 2 Kings×4
• 2 Chronicles×6
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×2
• Job×3
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×6
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×8
• Jeremiah×16
• Lamentations×7
• Ezekiel×18
• Hosea×1
• Amos×1
• Micah×1
• Nahum×2
• Zephaniah×1
• Zechariah×2

• Genesis 6:14

  Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; with compartments you shall make the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch.

• Genesis 9:22

  And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.

• Genesis 15:5

  He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And he said to him, “So will your offspring be.”

• Genesis 19:16

  But he lingered; so the men seized his hand, his wife’s hand, and the hand of his two daughters, because of YHWH’s compassion for him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.

• Genesis 19:17

  When they had brought them outside, he said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stop anywhere in the plain; escape to the mountain, lest you be swept away.”

• Genesis 24:11

  He made the camels kneel outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time the women who draw water go out.

• Genesis 24:29

  Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.

• Genesis 24:31

  He said, “Come in, blessed of YHWH! Why do you stand outside? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”

• Genesis 39:12

  She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me.” But he left his garment in her hand and fled and went outside.

• Genesis 39:13

  When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled outside,

• Genesis 39:15

  When he heard that I raised my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled and went outside.”

• Genesis 39:18

  But when I raised my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled outside.”

• Exodus 12:46

  In one house it shall be eaten; you shall not take any of the meat out of the house outside, and you shall not break a bone of it.

• Exodus 21:19

  if he gets up and walks around outside on his staff, the one who struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for his lost time and have him thoroughly healed.

• Exodus 25:11

  You shall overlay it with pure gold; inside and outside you shall overlay it, and you shall make on it a molding of gold all around.

• Exodus 26:35

  You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand opposite the table on the south side of the dwelling; and the table you shall put on the north side.

• Exodus 27:21

  In the tent of meeting, outside the veil that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall set it in order from evening to morning before YHWH. It is a statute forever throughout their generations on the part of the sons of Israel.

• Exodus 29:14

  But the flesh of the bull and its skin and its dung you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

• Exodus 33:7

  And Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who sought YHWH would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp.

• Exodus 37:2

  And he overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made for it a molding of gold all around.

• Exodus 40:22

  And he put the table in the tent of meeting, on the side of the dwelling northward, outside the veil,

• Leviticus 4:12

  all the bull, he shall bring out to outside the camp, to a clean place, to the ash heap, and burn it on wood with fire; on the ash heap it shall be burned.

• Leviticus 4:21

  He shall bring the bull to outside the camp and burn it just as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering of the assembly.

• Leviticus 6:11

  Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments, and bring out the ashes to outside the camp, to a clean place.

• Leviticus 8:17

  But the bull, its skin, its flesh, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Leviticus 9:11

  The flesh and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp.

• Leviticus 10:4

  Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Uzziel, Aaron’s uncle, and said to them, “Come near, carry your brothers from before the Holy Place to outside the camp.”

• Leviticus 10:5

  They came near and carried them in their tunics to outside the camp, as Moses had said.

• Leviticus 13:46

  All the days that the sore is on him he shall be unclean; he is unclean; he shall live alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp.

• Leviticus 14:3

  The priest shall go out to outside the camp, and the priest shall examine him, and if the leprous sore has been healed in the leper,

• Leviticus 14:8

  The one being purified shall wash his garments, shave off all his hair, and bathe in water, and he will be clean; and after that he may come into the camp, but he shall remain outside his tent seven days.

• Leviticus 14:40

  the priest shall command that they pull out the stones in which the mark is and throw them to outside the city, to an unclean place.

• Leviticus 14:41

  And the house he shall have scraped inside all around, and they shall pour out the clay that they scrape off to outside the city, to an unclean place.

• Leviticus 14:45

  He shall tear down the house, its stones and its timbers and all the clay of the house, and carry them out to outside the city, to an unclean place.

• Leviticus 14:53

  He shall let go the living bird to outside the city, over the face of the field; so he shall make expiation for the house, and it will be clean.

• Leviticus 16:27

  And the bull of the sin offering and the goat of the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make expiation in the Holy Place, someone shall take out to outside the camp, and they shall burn in the fire their skins and their flesh and their dung.

• Leviticus 17:3

  Any man of the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or who slaughters it outside the camp,

• Leviticus 18:9

  The nakedness of your sister, daughter of your father or daughter of your mother, born at home or born outside, you shall not uncover their nakedness.

• Leviticus 24:3

  Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange it from evening to morning before YHWH continually; it is a statute forever throughout your generations.

• Leviticus 24:14

  “Bring the one who cursed outside the camp, and let all who heard lay their hands on his head, and let all the community stone him.

And 124 more times.