Basic HTML Version
mankind: “Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? Are not his days also like
the days of a hireling?” In Job 14:14
seems to represent “forced labor.” In Dan.
10:1 the word is used for “conflict”: “In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a word was
revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar. And the word was true, and it was a
great conflict” [
RSV
;
KJV
, “time appointed”].
B. Verb.
(
, 6633), “to wage war, to muster an army, to serve in worship.” This verb
appears 14 times in biblical Hebrew.
means “to wage war” in Num. 31:7: “And
they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses.…” The word is used
in 2 Kings 25:19 to refer to “mustering an army.” Another sense of
appears in
Num. 4:23 with the meaning of “serving in worship”: “… all that enter in to perform the
service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.”
HOUSE
(
"
, 1004), “house or building; home; household; land.” The noun has
cognates in most other Semitic languages including biblical Aramaic.
0
appears
about 2,048 times in biblical Hebrew (44 times in Aramaic) and in all periods.
First, this noun denotes a fixed, established structure made from some kind of
material. As a “permanent dwelling place” it is usually distinguished from a tent (2 Sam.
16:21, cf. v. 22). This word can even be applied to a one-room dwelling: “And he [Lot]
said [to the two angels], Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s
house …” (Gen. 19:2).
0
is also distinguished from temporary booths or huts: “And
Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle …”
(Gen. 33:17). In Ps. 132:3 the word means “dwelling-living-place” and is used in direct
conjunction with “tent” (literally, “tent of my house”): “Surely I will not come into the
tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed.” A similar usage appears in 1 Chron. 9:23
(literally, “the tent house”): “So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of
the house of the Lord, namely, the house of the tabernacle, by wards.”
Second, in many passages (especially when the word is joined to the word God)
represents a place of worship or “sanctuary”: “The first of the first fruits of thy land thou
shalt bring into the house of the Lord thy God” (Exod. 23:19). Elsewhere this noun
signifies God’s temple in Jerusalem: “And against the wall of the house he built
chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and
of the oracle …” (1 Kings 6:5). Sometimes the word has this meaning although it is not
further defined (cf. Ezek. 41:7).
Third,
can signify rooms and/or wings of a house: “And let the king appoint
officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair
young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the [harem] (literally, to the house of the
women; Esth. 2:3).…” In this connection
can also represent the inside of a building
or some other structure as opposed to the outside: “Make thee an ark of gopher wood;
rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch” (Gen.
6:14—the first biblical occurrence).