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Pillar [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Literally, a pile or heap; hence,

2. A kind or irregular column round an insulate, but deviating from the proportions of a just column. Pillars are either too massive or too slender for regular architecture; they are not restricted to any rules, and their parts and proportions are arbitrary. A square pillar is a massive work, called also a pier or piedroit, serving to support arches. etc.

3. A supporter; that which sustains or upholds; that on which some superstructure rests. Galatians 2:9 .

4. A monument raised to commemorate any person or remarkable transaction.

5. And Jacob set a pillar on her grave. Genesis 35:14 . 2 Samuel 18:18 .

6. Something resembling a pillar; as a pillar of salt. Genesis 19:26 .

7. So a pillar of a cloud, a pillar of fire. Exodus 13:21 .

8. Foundation; support. Job 9:6 .

9. In ships, a square or round timber fixed perpendicularly under the middle of the beams for supporting the decks.

10. In the manege, the center of the volta, ring or manege ground, around which a horse turns. There are also pillars on the circumference or side, placed at certain distances by two and two.

Pillar [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having a support in the form of a pillar, instead of legs; as, a pillar drill.

Pillar [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column or shaft not supporting a superstructure, as one erected for a monument or an ornament.

2. Figuratively, that which resembles such a pillar in appearance, character, or office; a supporter or mainstay; as, the Pillars of Hercules; a pillar of the state.

3. A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.

4. The center of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.

Pillar Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

properly means a column raised to support a building; but in Scripture the term mostly occurs in a metaphorical or figurative sense. Thus we have a pillar of cloud, a pillar of fire, a pillar of smoke, &c; signifying a cloud, a fire, a smoke raised up toward heaven in the form or shape of a pillar, Exod. xiii, 21; Judges xx, 40. Job speaks of the pillars of heaven and the pillars of the earth, Job ix, 6; xxvi, 11; which are strong metaphorical expressions, that suppose the heavens and the earth to be an edifice raised by the hand of the almighty Creator, and founded upon its basis. St. Paul speaks of the Christian church under the similitude of a pillar or column on which the truth, or doctrine of the glorious Gospel is inscribed, 1 Tim. iii, 15.

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Pillar-block [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See under Pillow.

Pillared [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Supported by pillars.

2. Having the form of a pillar.

Pillared [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Supported or ornamented by pillars; resembling a pillar, or pillars.

Pillaret [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A little pillar.

Pillarist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Stylite.

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119 KJV and 106 BSB verses contain “pillar” — showing the first 20. Show all 155 verses (searchable)

Genesis 19:26

But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

Genesis 28:18

And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.

Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it,

Genesis 28:22

And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.

And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth.”

Genesis 31:13

I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.

I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and made a solemn vow to Me. Now get up and leave this land at once, and return to your native land.’”

Genesis 31:45

And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar,

Genesis 31:51

And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;

Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.

Genesis 31:52

This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.

This mound is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this mound to harm you, and you will not go past this mound and pillar to harm me.

Genesis 35:14

And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.

So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.

Genesis 35:20

And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave unto this day.

Jacob set up a pillar on her grave; it marks Rachel’s tomb to this day.

Exodus 13:21

And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:

And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night.

Exodus 13:22

He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.

Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place before the people.

Exodus 14:19

And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:

And the angel of God, who had gone before the camp of Israel, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from before them and stood behind them,

Exodus 14:24

And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,

At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.

Exodus 24:4

And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Early the next morning he got up and built an altar at the base of the mountain, along with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

Exodus 26:32

And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.

Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood, overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases.

Exodus 26:37

And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.

Make five posts of acacia wood for the curtain, overlay them with gold hooks, and cast five bronze bases for them.

Exodus 27:10

And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts.

Exodus 27:11

And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

Likewise there are to be curtains on the north side, a hundred cubits long, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.

Exodus 27:12

And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

The curtains on the west side of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits wide, with ten posts and ten bases.

Exodus 27:14

The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.

Make the curtains on one side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases,