Rafters
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Strong's Hebrew
7351. rahit -- perhaps rafters, boards
... 7350, 7351. rahit. 7352 . perhaps rafters, boards. Transliteration: rahit
Phonetic Spelling: (rekh-eet') Short Definition: rafters. ...
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4746. meqareh -- beam work
... 4745, 4746. meqareh. 4747 . beam work. Transliteration: meqareh Phonetic
Spelling: (mek-aw-reh') Short Definition: rafters. Word ...
/hebrew/4746.htm - 6k

Library

Building a Great Temple
... He covered the walls of the temple on the inside with boards of cedar from the floor
of the temple to the rafters: and he covered the floor of the temple with ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/sherman/the childrens bible/building a great temple.htm

Prior Hugh
... us." So the king was forced to do a little traffic, which he considered to be a
dead loss, and acquired some very old cottages with rotten rafters and cracked ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/marson/hugh bishop of lincoln/chapter iii prior hugh.htm

Hugh the Builder
... distance. When the inhabitants were removed to Knap in North Curry and elsewhere,
they took their old rafters with them or sold these. ...
/.../marson/hugh bishop of lincoln/chapter viii hugh the builder.htm

Visit to Ceylon and Return to Benares.
... the people. Every part of the tree is turned to account. The wood is used
for rafters, and the leaves for thatching. The kernel ...
/.../life and work in benares and kumaon 1839-1877/chapter xviii visit to ceylon.htm

"I'll Never Steal Again --If Father Kills Me for It"
... Thinking that perhaps some poor creature had crept up there, he climbed the ladder,
drew himself up through the hole and found himself under the rafters. ...
/.../ill never steal againif father.htm

The Youth of Count Zinzendorf, 1700-1722.
... The grey old walls are streaked with slime. The wooden floors are rotten, shaky
and unsafe. The rafters are worm-eaten. The windows are broken. ...
/.../hutton/history of the moravian church/chapter i the youth of.htm

Conflagration
... The spout of fire leaped up as high as the roof, and, spreading among beams and
rafters, presented the aspect of a colossal tree of red flame. ...
/.../chapter lii conflagration.htm

The Sick of the Palsy
... Mark means that they first lifted the tiles which lay in a bed of mortar or mud,
broke through this, and then tore up the poles and light rafters by which all ...
/.../chadwick/the gospel of st mark/chapter 2 1-12 the sick of.htm

Chapter i
... Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, and comely; our bed is adorned with
flowers.17. The beams of our house are cedar and our rafters of fir.16. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/guyon/song of songs of solomon/chapter i.htm

How the Same Aidan, by his Prayers, Saved the Royal City when it ...
... down; and having pulled down all the villages in the neighbourhood of the city,
he brought thither an immense quantity of beams, rafters, partitions, wattles ...
/.../bede/bedes ecclesiastical history of england/chap xvi how the same.htm

Thesaurus
Rafters (5 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Rafters (5 Occurrences). ... (See JPS NAS NIV). Song of Songs
1:17 The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs. ...
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Gallery (2 Occurrences)
... 41:15, 16), a terrace; a projection; ledge. (2.) Hebrews rahit (Cant. 1:17), translated
"rafters," marg. "galleries;" probably panel-work or fretted ceiling. ...
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Rafter (1 Occurrence)
... inclination of the roof. 3. (vt) To make into rafters, as timber. 4. (vt)
To furnish with rafters, as a house. 5. (vt) To plow so ...
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Firs (9 Occurrences)
... are' her house. (YLT). Song of Songs 1:17 The beams of our house are cedars.
Our rafters are firs. (WEB ASV YLT NIV). Isaiah 14:8 ...
/f/firs.htm - 9k

Thrust (92 Occurrences)
... construction against other parts; especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward
pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the ...
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Rafts (2 Occurrences)

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Rib (5 Occurrences)
... word is only found in Daniel 7:5. Twice the Revised Version (British and American)
uses the word "rib" in a figurative sense of two beams or rafters built in ...
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Plate (34 Occurrences)
... the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports
the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters. ...
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Panels (10 Occurrences)
... pavement of stone. (WEB ASV DBY NIV). Song of Songs 1:17 The beams of our house
are cedars, And our rafters are firs. (See JPS). Song of ...
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Rafters (5 Occurrences)

1 Kings 6:15
He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.
(See RSV)

1 Kings 6:16
He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls of the ceiling : he built them for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.
(See RSV)

1 Kings 7:7
He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.
(See RSV)

Ecclesiastes 10:18
By slothfulness the roof sinketh in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaketh.
(See JPS NAS NIV)

Song of Songs 1:17
The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

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