Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something 2. (n.) A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. 3. (n.) A sum, account, or value set off against another sum or account, as an equivalent; hence, anything which is given in exchange or retaliation; a set-off. 4. (n.) A spur from a range of hills or mountains. 5. (n.) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; -- called also set-off. 6. (n.) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object. 7. (n.) An abrupt bend in an object, as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside. 8. (n.) A more or less distinct transfer of a printed page or picture to the opposite page, when the pages are pressed together before the ink is dry or when it is poor. 9. (imp. & p. p.) of Offset 10. (v. t.) To set off; to place over against; to balance; as, to offset one account or charge against another. 11. (v. t.) To form an offset in, as in a wall, rod, pipe, etc. 12. (v. i.) To make an offset.

Multi-Version Concordance Offset (3 Occurrences) 1 Kings 6:6 The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house all around, that the beams should not have hold in the walls of the house. (Root in WEB ASV NAS RSV NIV) Ezekiel 41:7 The side chambers were broader as they encompassed the house higher and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher around the house: therefore the breadth of the house continued upward; and so one went up from (See RSV) Hosea 12:8 Ephraim said, "Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won't find in me any iniquity that is sin." (See RSV)