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Easton's Bible Dictionary

Hebrews tsinnor, (2 Samuel 5:8). This Hebrew word occurs only elsewhere in Psalm 42:7 in the plural, where it is rendered "waterspouts." It denotes some passage through which water passed; a water-course.

In Genesis 30:38, 41 the Hebrew word rendered "gutters" is rahat, and denotes vessels overflowing with water for cattle (Exodus 2:16); drinking-troughs.

Noah Webster's Dictionary

1. (n.) A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.

2. (n.) A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water.

3. (n.) Any narrow channel or groove; as, a gutter formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.

4. (v. t.) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.

5. (v. t.) To supply with a gutter or gutters.

6. (v. i.) To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind.

Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia

GUTTER

gut'-er.

See HOUSE.

Multi-Version Concordance

Gutter (3 Occurrences)

2 Samuel 5:8 And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house. (KJV JPS WBS)

Ezekiel 43:13 These are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and its border around its edge a span; and this shall be the base of the altar. (See NIV)

Ezekiel 43:17 The ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen broad in the four sides of it; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and its bottom shall be a cubit around; and its steps shall look toward the east. (See NIV)




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