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stories

Meaning of “stories”

Levels or floors of a building.

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5 occurrences5 verses3 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Genesis 6:16

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Every verse containing “stories”

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Genesis 6:16
A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Genesis 6:16 · retained source text

A window shalt thou make to the arke, and in a cubite shalt thou finish it aboue; and the doore of the arke shalt thou set in the side thereof: With lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

Ezekiel 41:16
The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 41:16 · retained source text

The doore-posts and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, ouer against the doore sieled with wood round about, and from the ground vp to the windows, & the windows were couered.

1611 marginal noteHeb. sieling of wood.

1611 marginal noteOr, and the ground vnto the windowes.

Ezekiel 42:3
Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 42:3 · retained source text

Ouer against the twentie cubites which were for the inner court, and ouer against the pauement which was for the vtter court, was gallerie against gallery in three stories.

Ezekiel 42:6
For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 42:6 · retained source text

For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitned more then the lowest, and the middlemost from the ground.

Amos 9:6
It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Amos 9:6 · retained source text

It is he that buildeth his stories in the heauen, and hath founded his troupe in the earth, he that calleth for the waters of the Sea, and powreth them out vpon the face of the earth: the LORD is his name.

1611 marginal noteOr, spheares heb. ascensions.

1611 marginal noteOr, bundell.

1611 marginal notePsal. 104.3.

1611 marginal noteChap. 5.8.

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