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 Ezekiel — 4 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.
Ezekiel
- Ezekiel 43:14 הָ/עֲזָרָ֤ה וּ/מֵ/הֳ/עֲזָרָ֨ה הָ/עֲזָרָ֤ה ptcl def.art + n c fs conj + prep + ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the breadth a cubit.
- Ezekiel 43:17 וְ/הָ/עֲזָרָ֞ה conj + ptcl def.art + n c fs The ledge shall be fourteen [cubits] long by fourteen broad in the four sides of it; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom of it shall be a cubit round about; and the steps of it shall look toward the east.
- Ezekiel 43:20 הָ/עֲזָרָ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs You shall take of the blood of it, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border round about: thus shall you cleanse it and make atonement for it.
- Ezekiel 45:19 הָ/עֲזָרָ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering, and put it on the door-posts of the house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court.
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.
