# kotel (כֹּתֶל)

pronounced: KO-tel


**Wall — in Jerusalem, shorthand for the Western Wall**

## In Scripture

> Against the wall of the house he built stories all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side rooms all around.
> — 1 Kings 6:5 (This describes Solomon’s temple walls, not the later Western Wall; it supplies the earlier temple setting.)

> Then Solomon began to build Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
> — 2 Chronicles 3:1 (The Kotel belongs to the later retaining complex around the temple site identified here with Mount Moriah.)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


https://israelforyou.com/hebrew/kotel/