אוּלָם ulam

Hebrew word for “Portico” · Strong’s H197 · used 34 times in 29 verses

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Meaning

A hall or porch of the temple

Senses in the lexicon

• Portico (27)
• Hall (of pillars) (5)
• Hall (of the Throne) (1)
• Hall (of Justice) (1)

How it is translated

Glosses given for ulam in context, with how often each is used:

• porch 32
• porches 1
• like the porch 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 40 (8), 1 Kings 7 (6), Ezekiel 41 (3), 2 Chronicles 29 (2), Ezekiel 46 (2), 1 Kings 6 (1), 1 Chronicles 28 (1), 2 Chronicles 3 (1), 2 Chronicles 8 (1), 2 Chronicles 15 (1)

Forms

• האולם 7
• אלם 7
• אולם 5
• והאולם 2
• לאלם 2
• לאולם 2
• ואולם 2
• באולם 1
• ואלם 1
• ובאלם 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with ulam more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אַמָּה ammah “cubit” 10
• שַׁעַר shaar “gate” 10
• פְּנִימִי penimi “inner” 5
• רֹחַב rochav “width” 6
• אֹרֶךְ orekh “length” 6
• פֹּה poh “here” 5
• הֵיכָל hekhal “temple” 5
• עָב av “threshold” 3
• מָדַד madad “to measure” 4
• עַמּוּד ammud “pillar” 4
• חָצֵר chatser “court” 4
• עֹלָה olah “burnt offering” 4

Key verses

The verses using ulam that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Kings 6:3 — And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth…
• 1 Kings 7:12 — And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the…
• 1 Kings 7:21 — And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and…
• 1 Chronicles 28:11 — Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and…
• 2 Chronicles 15:8 — And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and…
• Ezekiel 8:16 — And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD’s house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about…
• Ezekiel 40:7 — And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of…
• Ezekiel 40:39 — And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the…
• Ezekiel 41:15 — And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other…
• Ezekiel 44:3 — It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the…
• Ezekiel 46:2 — And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt…
• Joel 2:17 — Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.