PORCH
porch: Chiefly in the Old Testament 'alam, used of the temples of Solomon and Ezekiel (see TEMPLE); once micderon, a "vestibule," in Jdg 3:23. In the New Testament, the word occurs in connection with the high priest's palace (Mt 26:71, pulon; Mk 14:68, proaulion), and as the rendering of stoa, a "portico," in Jn 5:2 (pool of Bethesda); and Jn 10:23; Acts 3:11; 5:12. See PORCH, PORTICO, SOLOMON'S. |