Topic
Beam
25 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- 1 Samuel 17:7Easton · ISBE · Nave Weaver's
And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.
- 2 Samuel 21:19ISBE · Nave Weaver's
And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Beth-lehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
- 2 Kings 6:2Easton · ISBE
Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.
- 2 Kings 6:5Easton · ISBE
But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
- Habakkuk 2:11Easton · ISBE
For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
- Matthew 7:3Easton · ISBE
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
- Luke 6:41Easton · ISBE
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
- Luke 6:42Easton · ISBE
Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see…
- Judges 16:14ISBE
And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.
- 1 Kings 6:9ISBE
So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
- 1 Kings 7:3ISBE
And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.
- 1 Kings 7:6Easton
¶ And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.
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- 1 Chronicles 11:23 ISBE
- 1 Chronicles 20:5 ISBE
- 2 Chronicles 3:7 ISBE
- 2 Chronicles 34:11 ISBE
- Nehemiah 2:8 ISBE
- Nehemiah 3:3 ISBE
- Nehemiah 3:6 ISBE
- Job 7:6 ISBE
- Psalms 104:3 ISBE
- Song of Songs 1:17 ISBE
- Ezekiel 41:25 Easton
- Matthew 7:4 Easton
- Matthew 7:5 Easton
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 11 references
Occurs in the Authorized Version as the rendering of various Hebrew words. In 1 Sam. 17:7, it means a weaver’s frame or principal beam; in Hab. 2:11, a crossbeam or girder; 2 Kings 6:2, 5, a cross-piece or rafter of a house; 1 Kings 7:6, an architectural ornament as a projecting step or moulding; Ezek. 41:25, a thick plank. In the New Testament the word occurs only in Matt. 7:3, 4, 5, and Luke 6:41, 42, where it means (Gr. dokos) a large piece of wood used for building purposes, as contrasted with “mote” (Gr. karphos), a small piece or mere splinter. “Mote” and “beam” became proverbial for little and great faults.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 21 references
bem: The word is used to translate various Old Testament terms:
(1) gebh (1Ki 6:9), tsela`, "a rib" (1Ki 7:3), qurah (2Ch 3:7; 34:11; So 1:17), all refer to constructional beams used in buildings for roofing and upper floors, main beams being carried on pillars generally of wood. The last term is used in 2Ki 6:2,5 ("as one was felling a beam") of trees which were being cut into logs. A related form is qarah (used of the Creator, Ps 104:3; of building, Ne 2:8; 3:3,6). Yet another term, kaphim, is used in Hab 2:11: "The stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it"--a protest against sin made by inanimate things. The Douay version, in translating, "the timber that is between the joints of the building," suggests the use of bond timbers in buildings, similar to that used at one time in English brickwork. It probably refers to its use in mud brick buildings, although bond timbers might also be used in badly built stone walls. The Arabs of the present day use steel joints to strengthen angles of buildings.
(2) Beam, in weaving, represents two words, 'eregh (Jud 16:14, the beam of a loom to which Samson's hair was fastened; used in Job 7:6 of a weaver's shuttle), and manor (1Sa 17:7; 2Sa 21:19; 1Ch 11:23; 20:5), of a spear-staff.
(3) In the New Testament Jesus uses the word dokos, "a rafter," in bidding the censorious person first cast the "beam" out of his own eye before attempting to remove the "mote" from another's eye (Mt 7:3; Lu 6:41,42).
See ARCHITECTURE; HOUSE.
Arch. C. Dickie
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.