Wall — in Jerusalem, shorthand for the Western Wall
also written: hakotel, ha-kotel
In Scripture
World English Bible
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 6:5This 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 3:1The Kotel belongs to the later retaining complex around the temple site identified here with Mount Moriah.
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Hebrew words
כסלוkislev
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קדש הקדשיםkodesh hakodashim
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כתלkotel
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כהן גדולkohen gadol
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מה שלומךma shlomkha
“How are you?” — literally “how is your…
‹ Hebrew words
כֹּתֶלkotelKO-tel
Wall — in Jerusalem, shorthand for the Western Wall
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
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.