foursquare

In Jewish tradition

Used of the altar of incense: it was square, a cubit long and a cubit wide.

Interpretation. Tradition reads the square shape of the incense altar as a fixed, orderly design that Moses was told to follow exactly; the altar was for burning incense, not animal offerings.

Meaning

having four equal sides and four right angles, like a square tree →

Examples

• A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be; and two cubits shall be the height thereof; the horns thereof shall be of one piece with it. (Torah EXO.30.2, JPS 1917) tree →
• And he measured the court, a hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar was before the house. (Prophets EZK.40.47, JPS 1917) tree →
• All the offering shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand; ye shall set apart the holy offering foursquare, with the possession of the city. (Prophets EZK.48.20, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.