Strong's Greek · G5038
τεῖχος
teîchos
wall
Definition
a wall (as formative of a house)
Derivation
akin to the base of G5088 (τίκτω);
Appears 9 times in Scripture
“The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself of pure gold, as pure as glass.”
“But I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his grasp.”
“The angel who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod to measure the city and its gates and walls.”
“One night, however, his disciples took him and lowered him in a basket through a window in the wall.”
“And he measured its wall to be 144 cubits, by the human measure the angel was using.”
“By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the people had marched around them for seven days.”
“The wall of the city had twelve foundations bearing the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.”
“The foundations of the city walls were adorned with every kind of precious stone: The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,”
“The city had a great and high wall with twelve gates inscribed with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, and twelve angels at the gates.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).