אֹשׁ
osh · foundation
Aramaic word · Strong’s number H787 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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osh (אֹשׁ) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “foundation”.
(Aramaic): the base on which a building stands.
How to say it
osh
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
- The base a building rises on.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Ezra 4:12
let it be known to the king that the Jews who came up from you have come to us, to Jerusalem; they are building the rebellious and wicked city, and they are finishing the walls and repairing the foundations.
- Ezra 5:16
Then that Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the house of Elah which is in Jerusalem; and from then until now it has been under construction, and it is not complete.’
- Ezra 6:3
In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king gave an order: Concerning the house of Elah in Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they sacrifice sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid; its height, sixty cubits; its width, sixty cubits;