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RAFTER

raf'-ter (Songs 1:17).

See GALLERY; HOUSE.

Greek
1385. dokos -- a beam of timber
... 1385 -- a large beam (joist) of wood; "" () a log on which planks in the house rest
(as in the papyri); joist, rafter, plank (Moffatt); a pole sticking out ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1385.htm - 7k
Strong's Hebrew
3714. kaphis -- a rafter, girder
... 3713b, 3714. kaphis. 3715 . a rafter, girder. Transliteration: kaphis
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-fece') Short Definition: rafter. Word ...
/hebrew/3714.htm - 5k

6982. qorah -- a rafter, beam
... 6981, 6982. qorah. 6983 . a rafter, beam. Transliteration: qorah Phonetic
Spelling: (ko-raw') Short Definition: beam. Word Origin ...
/hebrew/6982.htm - 6k

1356b. geb -- a beam, rafter
... geb. 1357 . a beam, rafter. Transliteration: geb Short Definition: beams. Word
Origin from gub Definition a beam, rafter NASB Word Usage beams (1). ...
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7351. rahit -- perhaps rafters, boards
... rafter. From the same as rahat; a panel (as resembling a trough) -- rafter. see
HEBREW rahat. 7350, 7351. rahit. 7352 . Strong's Numbers.
/hebrew/7351.htm - 6k

Library

The Mote and the Beam
... A mote means in the Greek a little splinter, whereas a beam means a rafter.
And the Lord Jesus means by this comparison to tell ...
//christianbookshelf.org/hession/the calvary road/chapter 7 the mote and.htm

The Weird Lady
... Earl Harold came to his castle wall; The gate was burnt with fire; Roof and rafter
were fallen down, The folk were strangers all in the town, And strangers all ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/andromeda and other poems/the weird lady.htm

November 22. "Cast the Beam Out of Thine Own Eye" (Matt. vii. 5).
... Very significantly does the Master say that the man that sees a mote in
his brother's eye, usually has a rafter in his own eye! ...
/.../simpson/days of heaven upon earth /november 22 cast the beam.htm

The Sermon on the Mount.
... Jesus graphically and grotesquely represents a man with a log, or rafter, in his
eye trying to take a chip or splinter out of his neighbor's eye. ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/xlii the sermon on the 7.htm

Memento Mori
... us to and fro. There was not a pillar that stood firm. There was not a beam
or rafter that did not quiver. We said, in the bitterness ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 6 1860/memento mori.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) A raftsman.

2. (n.) Originally, any rough and somewhat heavy piece of timber. Now, commonly, one of the timbers of a roof which are put on sloping, according to the inclination of the roof.

3. (v. t.) To make into rafters, as timber.

4. (v. t.) To furnish with rafters, as a house.

5. (v. t.) To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to ridge.

Thesaurus
Rafter (1 Occurrence)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. RAFTER. raf'-ter (Songs 1:17). See GALLERY;
HOUSE. Multi-Version Concordance Rafter (1 Occurrence). ...
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Beam (17 Occurrences)
... In 1 Samuel 17:7, it means a weaver's frame or principal beam; in Habakkuk 2:11,
a crossbeam or girder; 2 Kings 6:2, 5, a cross-piece or rafter of a house; 1 ...
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Heel (8 Occurrences)
... 13. (n.) The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter. In the United
States, specif., the obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping. ...
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Yard (8 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A rod; a stick; a staff. 2. (n.) A branch;
a twig. 3. (n.) A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc. ...
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Rafters (5 Occurrences)

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Raft

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Spur (3 Occurrences)
... 10. (n.) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam;
a strut. 11. (n.) The short wooden buttress of a post. 12. ...
/s/spur.htm - 9k

Shoe (13 Occurrences)
... 9. (n.) An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill. 10. (n.) An iron socket
or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter. 11. ...
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Bible Concordance
Rafter (1 Occurrence)

Habakkuk 2:11 For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.
(See NAS)

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Beam (17 Occurrences)

Heel (8 Occurrences)

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Rafters (5 Occurrences)

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Shoe (13 Occurrences)

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