Strong's Number: H352
Original Word: ’ayil
Usage Notes: "pillar." This word appears 22 times and only once outside Ezek. 40-41: "And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel [pillar] and side posts were a fifth part of the wall" (1Kings 6:31).
Usage Number: 2
Strong's Number: H4676
Original Word: mas?s?ebâ
Usage Notes: "pillar; monument; sacred stone." This word is derived from the verb nas?ab, and it is found about 35 times. This word refers to a "pillar" as a personal memorial in 2Sa 18:18: "Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar…and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place." In Gen 28:18 the "monument" is a memorial of the Lord's appearance. Mas?s?ebâ is used in connection with the altar built by Moses in Exod 24:4, and it refers to "sacred stones or pillars."
