Word study
Area
6 Hebrew and 1 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: area, areas. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “area” or one of its forms.
Compare the Hebrew words side by side
Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- זֶה zehthis, thattranslated this way 4 times of its 984 uses · Strong’s H2088Pronoun · Translated: this 478, in this 42, these 39, of this 27Full study and all 913 verses →
Numbers 35:5 You are also to measure two thousand cubits outside the city on the east, two thousand on the south, two thousand on the west, and two thousand on the north, with the city in the center. These areas will serve as larger pasturelands for the cities.
- קֹדֶשׁ qôdeshsacred, sanctitytranslated this way 3 times of its 437 uses · Strong’s H6944Noun · Translated: holy 192, sanctuary 42, sacred 31, according to the sanctuary 24Full study and all 379 verses →
Leviticus 10:18 Since its blood was not brought inside the holy place, you should have eaten it in the sanctuary area, as I commanded.”
Numbers 28:7 The drink offering accompanying each lamb shall be a quarter hin. Pour out the offering of fermented drink to the LORD in the sanctuary area.
- בַּיִת bayithhousetranslated this way 3 times of its 1,913 uses · Strong’s H1004Noun · Translated: house 1,132, temple 176, palace 117, household 93Full study and all 1,624 verses →
- מָקוֹם mâqômstanding, spot, conditiontranslated this way 2 times of its 381 uses · Strong’s H4725Noun · Translated: place 279, home 16, places 11, wherever 7Full study and all 364 verses →
Leviticus 14:13 Then he is to slaughter the lamb in the sanctuary area where the sin offering and burnt offering are slaughtered. Like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; it is most holy.
Ezekiel 41:11 The side rooms opened into this area, with one entrance on the north and another on the south. The open area was five cubits wide all around.
- נוּחַ nûachresttranslated this way 2 times of its 140 uses · Strong’s H5117Verb · Translated: rest 20, leave 10, placed 9, set 7Full study and all 139 verses →
Ezekiel 41:9 The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick, and the open area between the side rooms of the temple
Ezekiel 41:11 The side rooms opened into this area, with one entrance on the north and another on the south. The open area was five cubits wide all around.
- יָתַר yâtharremain overtranslated this way 2 times of its 106 uses · Strong’s H3498Verb · Translated: left 24, rest 12, remaining 11, remainder 8Full study and all 100 verses →
Ezekiel 48:15 The remaining area, 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, will be for common use by the city, for houses, and for pastureland. The city will be in the center of it
Ezekiel 48:21 The remaining area on both sides of the holy portion and of the property of the city will belong to the prince. He will own the land adjacent to the tribal portions, extending eastward from the 25,000 cubits of the holy district toward the eastern border, and westward from the 25,000 cubits to the western border. And in the center of them will be the holy portion and the sanctuary of the temple.
Greek words (New Testament)
- ἐκεῖθεν ekeîthenthence, from that placetranslated this way 2 times of its 19 uses · Strong’s G1564Adverb · Translated: from there 10, place 5, area 2, that 1Full study and all 19 verses →
Mark 6:10 And He told them, “When you enter a house, stay there until you leave that area.
Luke 9:4 Whatever house you enter, stay there until you leave that area.
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- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.