'Wide' in the Bible

And this is the way you are to make it: it is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

From that land he went out into Assyria, building Nineveh with its wide streets and Calah,

And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; after that the families of the Canaanites went far and wide in all directions;

So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so great that there was not room for them together.

It is the desire of these men to be at peace with us; let them then go on living in this country and doing trade here, for the country is wide open before them; let us take their daughters as wives and let us give them our daughters.

For their wealth was so great that the land was not wide enough for the two of them and all their cattle.

And I have come down to take them out of the hands of the Egyptians, guiding them out of that land into a good land and wide, into a land flowing with milk and honey; into the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

And they are to make an ark of hard wood; two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half wide and high.

And you are to make a cover of the best gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

And you are to make a table of the same wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high,

And make a frame all round it, as wide as a man's hand, with a gold edge to the frame.

Every curtain is to be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.

Every curtain is to be thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.

Every board is to be ten cubits high and a cubit and a half wide.

And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high.

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.

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.

It is to be square, folded in two, a hand-stretch long and a hand-stretch wide.

The altar is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high, and its horns are to be made of the same.

For I will send out the nations before you and make wide the limits of your land; and no man will make an attempt to take your land while you go up to give worship to the Lord, three times in the year.

Every curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.

Every curtain was thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.

The boards were ten cubits long and one cubit and a half wide.

And Bezalel made the ark of hard wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide and a cubit and a half high;

And he made the cover all of gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

And he made the table of hard wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high;

And he made a frame all round it about as wide as a man's hand, edged with gold all round.

And he made the altar for the burning of spices, using the same hard wood; it was square, a cubit long and a cubit wide and two cubits high; the horns made of the same.

The altar of burned offerings he made of hard wood; a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high,

It was square and folded in two, as long and as wide as the stretch of a man's hand;

Then let the loud horn be sounded far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of taking away sin let the horn be sounded through all your land.

(For Og, king of Bashan, was the last of all the Rephaim; his bed was made of iron; is it not in Rabbah, in the land of the children of Ammon? It was nine cubits long and four cubits wide, measured by the common cubit.)

When the Lord your God makes wide the limit of your land, as he has said, and you say, I will take flesh for my food, because you have a desire for it; then you may take whatever flesh you have a desire for.

And if the Lord your God makes wide the limits of your land, as he said in his oath to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he undertook to give to your fathers;

Of Gad he said, A blessing be on him who makes wide the limits of Gad: he takes his rest like a she-lion, taking for himself the arm and the crown of the head.

Then Joshua said to them, If you are such a great people, go up into the woodlands, clearing a place there for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, if the hill-country of Ephraim is not wide enough for you.

(But the limit of the children of Dan was not wide enough for them; so the children of Dan went up and made war on Leshem and took it, putting it to the sword without mercy, and they took it for their heritage and made a place for themselves there, giving it the name of Leshem-dan, after the name of their father, Dan.)

When you come there you will come to a people living without thought of danger; and the land is wide, and God has given it into your hands: a place where there is everything on earth for man's needs.

And Hannah, in prayer before the Lord, said, My heart is glad in the Lord, my horn is lifted up in the Lord: my mouth is open wide over my haters; because my joy is in your salvation.

And Abner said to David, Now I will go, and make all Israel come to my lord the king, so that they may make an agreement with you, and your kingdom may be as wide as your heart's desire. Then David sent Abner away and he went in peace.

He took me out into a wide place; he was my saviour because he had delight in me.

You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet make no slip.

And God gave Solomon a great store of wisdom and good sense, and a mind of wide range, as wide as the sand by the seaside.

The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.

The covered way before the Temple of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and ten cubits wide in front of the house.

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.

With outstretched wings five cubits wide; the distance from the edge of one wing to the edge of the other was ten cubits.

And he made the house of the Woods of Lebanon, which was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high, resting on four lines of cedar-wood pillars with cedar-wood supports on the pillars.

And he made a covered room of pillars, fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, and ... with steps before it.

And he made ten wheeled bases of brass; every one four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.

But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made!

And they came to some good fertile grass-land, in a wide quiet country of peace-loving people; for the people who were living there before were of the offspring of Ham.

But who may have strength enough to make a house for him, seeing that the heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be his resting-place? who am I then to make a house for him? But I am building it only for the burning of perfume before him.

And Solomon put the base of the house of God in position; by the older measure it was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

And the covered way in front of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and a hundred and twenty cubits high, all plated inside with the best gold.

And he made the most holy place; it was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, like the greater house, and was plated all over with the best gold; six hundred talents were used for it.

Then he made a brass altar, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.

(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.)

But is it truly possible that God may be housed with men on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place: how much less this house which I have made:

And in Jerusalem he made machines, the invention of expert men, to be placed on the towers and angles of the walls for sending arrows and great stones. And his name was honoured far and wide; for he was greatly helped till he was strong.

And he sent for the priests and the Levites, and got them together in the wide place on the east side,

And he put war chiefs over the people, and sent for them all to come together to him in the wide place at the doorway into the town, and to give them heart he said to them,

In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made an order: In connection with the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be put up, the place where they make offerings, and let the earth for the bases be put in place; let it be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide;

Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin came together to Jerusalem before three days were past; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people were seated in the wide square in front of the house of God, shaking with fear because of this business and because of the great rain.

Near them was working Uzziel, the son of Harhaiah, the gold-worker. And by him was Hananiah, one of the perfume-makers, building up Jerusalem as far as the wide wall.

Now the town was wide and great: but the people in it were only a small number, and the houses had not been put up.

And when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their towns. And all the people came together like one man into the wide place in front of the water-doorway; and they made a request to Ezra the scribe that he would put before them the book of the law of Moses which the Lord had given to Israel.

He was reading it in the wide place in front of the water-doorway, from early morning till the middle of the day, in the hearing of all those men and women whose minds were able to take it in; and the ears of all the people were open to the book of the law.

And the people went out and got them and made themselves tents, every one on the roof of his house, and in the open spaces and in the open squares of the house of God, and in the wide place of the water-doorway, and the wide place of the doorway of Ephraim.

And the other band of those who gave praise went to the left, and I went after them with half the people, on the wall, over the tower of the ovens, as far as the wide wall;

Increasing nations, and sending destruction on them; making wide the lands of peoples, and then giving them up.

Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

They were waiting for me as for the rain, opening their mouths wide as for the spring rains.

As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.

And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.

By the breath of God ice is made, and the wide waters are shut in.

Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.

He took me out into a wide place; he was my saviour because he had delight in me.

You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet are kept from slipping.

I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

And you have not given me into the hand of my hater; you have put my feet in a wide place.

Their mouths were open wide against me, and they said, Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it.

You let men go driving over our heads; we went through fire and through water; but you took us out into a wide place.

May there be wide-stretching fields of grain in the land, shaking on the top of the mountains, full of fruit like Lebanon: may its stems be unnumbered like the grass of the earth.

The clouds sent out water; the skies gave out a sound; truly, your arrows went far and wide.

I am the Lord your God, who took you up from the land of Egypt: let your mouth be open wide, so that I may give you food.

There is the great, wide sea, where there are living things, great and small, more than may be numbered.

I made my prayer to the Lord in my trouble: and the Lord gave me an answer, and put me in a wide place.

So that my way may be in a wide place: because my search has been for your orders.

I have seen that nothing on earth is complete; but your teaching is very wide.

My mouth was open wide, waiting with great desire for your teachings.

He who keeps a watch on his mouth keeps his life; but he whose lips are open wide will have destruction.

He who goes about talking of the business of others gives away secrets: so have nothing to do with him whose lips are open wide.

It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.

The feast-day dresses, and the robes, and the wide skirts, and the handbags,

For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.

In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord seated in his place, high and lifted up, and the Temple was full of the wide skirts of his robe.