IsraelForYou
EN

כֹּתֶל

kotel

pronounced KO-tel

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 6:5 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.

Nearby words

How it reads in the app

The same lexicon, opened in IsraelForYou: pick a word from the list and its card opens — script, sound, and every verse it lives in.

Hebrew words
  • כסלו kislev The Hebrew calendar month in which Hanukkah…
  • קדש הקדשים kodesh hakodashim The Holy of Holies — the innermost room of…
  • כתל kotel Wall — in Jerusalem, shorthand for the…
  • כהן גדול kohen gadol The high priest — the one man who entered the…
  • מה שלומך ma shlomkha “How are you?” — literally “how is your…