Meaning of “Wall”

1. Wall — Cities were surrounded by walls, as distinguished from "unwalled villages" (Ezek. 38:11; Lev. 25:29-34). They were made thick and strong (Num. 13:28; Deut. 3:5). Among the Jews walls were built of stone, some of those in the temple being of great size (1 Kings 6:7; 7:9-12; 20:30; Mark 13:1, 2). The term is used metaphorically of security and safety (Isa. 26:1; 60:18; Rev. 21:12-20). (See FENCE »T0001321.)

2. Swallow — (1.) Heb. sis (Isa. 38:14; Jer. 8:7), the Arabic for the swift, which "is a regular migrant, returning in myriads every spring, and so suddenly that while one day not a swift can be seen in the country, on the next they have overspread the whole land, and fill the air with their shrill cry." The swift (cypselus) is ordinarily classed with the swallow, which it resembles in its flight, habits, and migration. (2.) Heb. deror, i.e., "the bird of freedom" (Ps. 84:3; Prov. 26:2), properly rendered swallow, distinguished for its swiftness of flight, its love of freedom, and the impossibility of retaining it in captivity. In Isa. 38:14 and Jer. 8:7 the word thus rendered ('augr) properly means "crane" (as in the R.V.).

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1. Genesis Chapter 49 Verse 6 — O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honor, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall.

2. Genesis Chapter 49 Verse 22 — Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:

3. Exodus Chapter 7 Verse 12 — For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

4. Exodus Chapter 14 Verse 22 — And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

5. Exodus Chapter 14 Verse 29 — But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

6. Exodus Chapter 15 Verse 12 — Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.

7. Leviticus Chapter 14 Verse 37 — And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;

8. Leviticus Chapter 14 Verse 39 — And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;

9. Leviticus Chapter 25 Verse 29 — And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.

10. Leviticus Chapter 25 Verse 30 — And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee.

11. Leviticus Chapter 25 Verse 31 — But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.

12. Numbers Chapter 13 Verse 28 — Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.

13. Numbers Chapter 16 Verse 30 — But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.

14. Numbers Chapter 16 Verse 32 — And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.

15. Numbers Chapter 16 Verse 34 — And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.

16. Numbers Chapter 22 Verse 24 — But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.

17. Numbers Chapter 22 Verse 25 — And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again.

18. Numbers Chapter 26 Verse 10 — And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.

19. Numbers Chapter 35 Verse 4 — And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.

20. Deuteronomy Chapter 1 Verse 28 — Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.

21. Deuteronomy Chapter 3 Verse 5 — All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.

22. Deuteronomy Chapter 11 Verse 6 — And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:

23. Deuteronomy Chapter 28 Verse 52 — And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

24. Joshua Chapter 2 Verse 15 — Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.

25. Joshua Chapter 6 Verse 5 — And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.

26. Joshua Chapter 6 Verse 20 — So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

27. 1 Samuel Chapter 18 Verse 11 — And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.

28. 1 Samuel Chapter 19 Verse 10 — And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin: but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.

29. 1 Samuel Chapter 20 Verse 25 — And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty.

30. 1 Samuel Chapter 25 Verse 16 — They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

31. 1 Samuel Chapter 25 Verse 22 — So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.

32. 1 Samuel Chapter 25 Verse 34 — For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.

33. 1 Samuel Chapter 31 Verse 10 — And they put his armor in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.

34. 1 Samuel Chapter 31 Verse 12 — All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.

35. 2 Samuel Chapter 11 Verse 20 — And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?

36. 2 Samuel Chapter 11 Verse 21 — Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

37. 2 Samuel Chapter 11 Verse 24 — And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

38. 2 Samuel Chapter 17 Verse 16 — Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.

39. 2 Samuel Chapter 18 Verse 24 — And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.

40. 2 Samuel Chapter 20 Verse 12 — And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.

41. 2 Samuel Chapter 20 Verse 15 — And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

42. 2 Samuel Chapter 20 Verse 19 — I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?

43. 2 Samuel Chapter 20 Verse 20 — And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

44. 2 Samuel Chapter 20 Verse 21 — The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.

45. 2 Samuel Chapter 22 Verse 30 — For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.

46. 1 Kings Chapter 3 Verse 1 — And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.

47. 1 Kings Chapter 4 Verse 13 — The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brazen bars:

48. 1 Kings Chapter 4 Verse 33 — And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

49. 1 Kings Chapter 6 Verse 5 — 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: and he made chambers round about:

50. 1 Kings Chapter 6 Verse 6 — The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.

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