outer
chi.tson marks what is situated outside or on the outer side, especially courts, gates, walls, and work beyond an interior area.
The term most often identifies an outer architectural area in contrast with an inner or holy space: courts, gates, walls, and surfaces are located on the outside. In two work assignments, it describes work carried on outside the central setting.
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Outer areas and architectural features · dominant
The feminine singular absolute form occurs repeatedly in clauses about an outer court: in Ezekiel 40:17 the APB renders the destination as “the outer court,” and in Ezekiel 42:14 it contrasts the holy area with that court. The term also marks an outer wall in 2 Chronicles 33:14, an outer gate in Ezekiel 44:1, and the side opposite the inner area in 1 Kings 6:29.
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Work outside the central setting · rare
In 1 Chronicles 26:29, the feminine singular absolute form occurs in the assignment of Chenaniah and his sons to work described by the APB as “the outer work over Israel.” Nehemiah 11:16 likewise places the form in the Levites’ supervision of work the APB calls “the outside work of the house of God.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB commonly presents the spatial use with “outer,” as in “outer court,” “outer wall,” and “outer gate,” while the work assignments are rendered “outer work” and “outside work.” Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these renderings confirm the clauses’ setting rather than provide word-by-word alignment.