עֲזָרָה
enclosure
‘enclosure’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H5835 appears in the Book of 2 Chronicles — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
2 Chronicles
- 2 Chronicles 4:9 וְ/הָ/עֲזָרָ֖ה לָ/עֲזָרָ֛ה conj + ptcl def.art + n c fs prep det + n c fs Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.
- 2 Chronicles 6:13 הָ/עֲזָרָה֒ ptcl def.art + n c fs (for Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and on it he stood, and kneeled down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;)
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“enclosure” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun עזרה (ʻăzârâh). It clusters heavily in Ezekiel, which alone accounts for 67% of its uses. It turns up in 6 verses across 2 books, an uncommon footprint. Its meaning spans more than one sense — see its full sense range. Older and newer Bibles part ways — “settle” in the King James Version, “ledge” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5835 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,481
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,481 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezekiel 4 verses 67%
- 2 Chronicles 2 verses 33%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 6 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 4 verses · 67%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 33%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Settle 6×, Court 3×
- American Standard Version: Ledge 6×, Court 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ledge 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Court 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5835 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5835 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5835 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5835 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. ledge surrounding Ezekiel’s altar
- 2. outer court of temple
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
עֲזָרָה n.f. appar. enclosure
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עזר (ʻâzar) (H5826) — to help.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עֶזְרָה I
- pr. n. m., v. עֶזְרָא
עֶזְרָה II
- help. Taan. III, 7 (19ᵃ) לע׳ ולא לצעקה (you may blow the alarm on the Sabbath to summon people) for help, but not for prayer. Kidd. 6ᵃ עֶזְרָתִי מהו (if one says to a woman) ‘be my help’, how is it (is she betrothed)?, v. עֵזֶר.
עֲזָרָה
- enclosure, esp. Temple court. Midd. I, 4 שבעה שערים היו בע׳ the Temple court had seven gates. Ib. II, 5 עֶזְרַת הנשים the women’s compartment in the Temple court; עזרת ישראל the men’s compartment (for non-priests). Ib. 6 כל הע׳ וכ׳ the whole ʿĂzarah was one hundred and seventy five cubits long &c.; a. v. fr.—ספר הע׳ the copy of the Torah used in the Temple court. M. Kat. III, 4 (18ᵇ) ספר הע׳ (Var. עזרא the copy deposited by Ezra). B. Bath. 14ᵇ top. Kel. XV, 6; a. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms H5835 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הָ/עֲזָרָ֤ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 43:14 | 2 |
| הָ/עֲזָרָ֔ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 43:20 | 1 |
| הָ/עֲזָרָ֖ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 45:19 | 1 |
| הָ/עֲזָרָה֒ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 6:13 | 1 |
| וְ/הָ/עֲזָרָ֖ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 4:9 | 1 |
| וְ/הָ/עֲזָרָ֞ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 43:17 | 1 |
| וּ/מֵ/הֳ/עֲזָרָ֨ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 43:14 | 1 |
| לָ/עֲזָרָ֛ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 4:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5835, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- יעזיר Yaʻăzêyr H3270 Jazer
- עזור ʻAzzûwr H5809 Azur
- עזר ʻEzer H5827 Ezer
- עזראל ʻĂzarʼêl H5832 Azarael
- עזריה ʻĂzaryâh H5838 Azariah
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 5 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 6 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 6 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
