International Standard Bible Encyclopedia CORNER kor'-ner (miqtsoa`, pe'ah, pinnah; arche, gonia, akrogoniaios): In Exodus 26:24 Ezekiel 41:22; Ezekiel 46:21, 22, miqtsoa`, "angle" is translated "corner"; pe'ah, "side," "quarter" and pinnah "corner," "front," "chief," are more frequently so translated, e.g. Exodus 25:26 Leviticus 19:9 Jeremiah 9:26; Jeremiah 25:23; and Exodus 27:2 1 Kings 7:34; Psalm 118:22 Isaiah 28:16 ("corner-stone"); Jeremiah 51:26. Other words are kanaph, "wing" (Isaiah 11:12 Ezekiel 7:2); katheph, "shoulder" (2 Kings 11:11 the King James Version, twice); pa`am, "foot" (Exodus 25:12 the King James Version); zawiyoth, "corner-stones" (Psalm 144:12 Zechariah 9:15, translated "corners"). For "corner" the Revised Version (British and American) has "side" (Exodus 36:25), "corner-stone" (Zechariah 10:4), also for "stay" (Isaiah 19:13); instead of "teacher removed into a corner" (Isaiah 30:20), "be hidden," "hide themselves"; for "corners" we have "feet" (Exodus 25:12 1 Kings 7:30); "ribs" (Exodus 30:4; Exodus 37:27); for "divide into corners" (Nehemiah 9:22), "allot after their portions"; for "into corners" (Deuteronomy 32:26), "afar"; the words to Israel (Isaiah 41:9) "called thee from the chief men 'atsilim thereof" are rendered by the Revised Version (British and American) "called thee from the corners thereof" (of the earth). CORNER GATE kor'-ner gat. GATE, CORNER, FOUNTAIN, HORSE, SUR See JERUSALEM.
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