'Space' in the Bible

And Laban said to him, Truly, you are my bone and my flesh. And he kept Jacob with him for the space of a month.

These he gave to his servants, every herd by itself, and he said to his servants, Go on before me, and let there be a space between one herd and another.

And let there be an open space round the House, with hangings for its south side of the best linen, a hundred cubits long.

And for the open space on the west side, the hangings are to be fifty cubits wide, with ten pillars and ten bases;

And on the east side the space is to be fifty cubits wide.

All the pillars round the open space are to have silver bands, with hooks of silver and bases of brass.

The open space is to be a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, with sides five cubits high, curtained with the best linen, with bases of brass.

All the instruments for the work of the House, and all its nails, and the nails of the open space are to be of brass.

The hangings for the open space, its pillars and their bases, and the curtain for the doorway;

The nails for the House, and the nails for the open space and their cords;

To make the open space, he put hangings on the south side, of the best linen, a hundred cubits long:

And on the east side, the open space was fifty cubits long.

And the curtain for the doorway of the open space was of the best linen, with designs of blue and purple and red in needlework; it was twenty cubits long and five cubits high, to go with the hangings round the sides.

All the nails used for the House and the open space round it were of brass.

And the bases for the open space all round and for its doorway, and all the nails for the House and for the open space.

The hangings for the open space, with the pillars and their bases, and the curtain for the doorway, and the cords and nails, and all the instruments necessary for the work of the House of the Tent of meeting;

And put up the hangings forming the open space all round it, with the curtain over its doorway.

And he put up the hangings forming the open space round the House and the altar, and put the curtain over the doorway. So Moses made the work complete.

And whatever is over Aaron and his sons may have for their food, taking it without leaven in a holy place; in the open space of the Tent of meeting they may take a meal of it.

The priest by whom it is offered for sin, is to take it for his food in a holy place, in the open space of the Tent of meeting.

And if a man gives his house in a walled town for money, he has the right to get it back for the space of a full year after he has given it up.

And the hangings for the open space round the House and the altar, and the curtain for its doorway, and all the cords needed for its use.

And the pillars of the open space round it, with their bases and nails and cords.

And the hangings for the open space round the House and the altar, and the curtain for its doorway, with the cords and all the things used for them; whatever is necessary for these, they are to do.

And the pillars of the open space outside it, with their bases and their nails and cords and all the instruments used, and everything which has to be done there; all the instruments for which they are responsible are to be numbered by name.

The measure of this space of land is to be two thousand cubits outside the town on the east, and two thousand cubits on the south and on the west and on the north, the town being in the middle. This space will be the outskirts of their towns.

Make no attack on them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even space enough for a man's foot: because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for his heritage.

And take all the goods into the middle of its open space, burning the town and all its property with fire as an offering to the Lord your God; it is to be a waste for ever; there is to be no more building there.

But let there be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits: come no nearer to it, so that you may see the way you have to go, for you have not been over this way before.

And the sun was at rest and the moon kept its place till the nation had given punishment to their attackers. (Is it not recorded in the book of Jashar?) So the sun kept its place in the middle of the heavens, and was waiting, and did not go down, for the space of a day.

And at their first attack, Jonathan and his servant put to the sword about twenty men, all inside the space of half an acre of land.

Then David went over to the other side, and took his place on the top of a mountain some distance away, with a great space between them;

And David was living in the land of the Philistines for the space of a year and four months.

The lowest line of them being five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide and the third seven cubits; for there was a space all round the outside walls of the house so that the boards supporting the rooms did not have to be fixed in the walls of the house.

And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.

And the inner space was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards.

Shallum, the son of Jabesh, became king in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah, king of Judah; and he was ruling in Samaria for the space of one month.

Then he made the open space for the priests, and the great open space and its doors, plating the doors with brass.

(For Solomon had made a brass stage, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, and had put it in the middle of the open space; on this he took his place and went down on his knees before all the meeting of Israel, stretching out his hands to heaven.)

And Jehoshaphat took his place in the meeting of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord in front of the new open space,

Palal, the son of Uzai, made good the wall opposite the angle and the tower which comes out from the higher part of the king's house, by the open space of the watch. After him was Pedaiah, the son of Parosh.

So in the lowest part of the space at the back of the walls, in the open places, I put the people by families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

Now every girl, when her turn came, had to go in to King Ahasuerus, after undergoing, for a space of twelve months, what was ordered by the law for the women (for this was the time necessary for making them clean, that is, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with sweet perfumes and such things as are needed for making women clean):

How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?

By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.

Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!

In the space of two years I will send back into this place all the vessels of the Lord's house which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, took away from this place to Babylon:

And before all the people Hananiah said, The Lord has said, Even so will I let the yoke of the king of Babylon be broken off the necks of all the nations in the space of two years. Then the prophet Jeremiah went away.

And the watchmen's rooms were one rod long and one rod wide; and the space between the rooms was five cubits; the doorstep of the doorway, by the covered way of the doorway inside, was one rod.

And the space in front of the rooms, a cubit on this side and a cubit on that side; and the rooms six cubits on this side and six cubits on that.

The side-rooms became wider as they went higher up the house, by the amount of the space let into the wall up round about the house, because of the inlets in the house; and one went up from the lowest floor by steps to the middle, and from the middle to the upper floor.

The wall supporting the side-rooms on the outside was five cubits thick: and there was a free space of five cubits between the side-rooms of the house.

And between the rooms was a space twenty cubits wide all round the house.

And the free space had doors opening from the side-rooms, one door on the north and one door on the south: and the free space was five cubits wide all round.

Opposite the space of twenty cubits which was part of the inner square, and opposite the stone floor of the outer square. There were covered ways facing one another on the third floor.

And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways took up more space from these than from the lower and middle rooms.

For the rooms in the outer square were fifty cubits long: and in front of the Temple was a space of a hundred cubits.

This is the law of the house: On the top of the mountain all the space round it on every side will be most holy. See, this is the law of the house.

Of this, a square five hundred long and five hundred wide is to be for the holy place, with a space of fifty cubits all round it.

And of this measure, let a space be measured, twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide: in it there will be the holy place, even the most holy.

A space of land twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide is to be for the Levites, the servants of the house, a property for themselves, for towns for their living-places.

And he took me out into the outer square and made me go by the four angles of the square; and I saw that in every angle of the open square there was a space shut in.

And the other five thousand, measured from side to side, in front of the twenty-five thousand, is to be for common use, for the town, for living in and for a free space: and the town will be in the middle of it.

And the town will have a free space on the north of two hundred and fifty, on the south of two hundred and fifty, on the east of two hundred and fifty, and on the west of two hundred and fifty.

And I said to her, You are to be mine for a long space of time; you are not to be false to me, and no other man is to have you for his wife; and so will I be to you.

And he said to the gardener, See, for three years I have been looking for fruit from this tree, and I have not had any: let it be cut down; why is it taking up space?

And for the space of two years, Paul was living in the house of which he had the use, and had talk with all those who went in to see him,

Then after the space of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus with me.

But do not take the measure of the space outside the house; because it has been given to the nations: and the holy town will be under their feet for forty-two months.