חוּץ
chuts (H2351)
outside
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# חוּץ (chuts): "Outside" The Hebrew word חוּץ (chuts) appears 164 times in the Bible and carries the fundamental meaning of "outside"—designating space, location, or position beyond a boundary or enclosure. This spatial term functions as a directional and locational marker, helping biblical writers establish clear distinctions between interior and exterior spaces. The word's frequency across the scriptural text (164 occurrences) indicates it was an essential vocabulary item for describing the physical geography and layout of biblical life, from domestic spaces to religious structures. The significance of this word extends beyond mere spatial description. In biblical narrative and law, the distinction between "inside" and "outside" often carries practical, ritual, or symbolic weight. The term would have been used to describe locations ranging from the exterior of houses and city walls to areas beyond the camp of Israel or outside the temple precincts. By providing a straightforward vocabulary for this inside-outside distinction, חוּץ allowed biblical writers to communicate essential information about boundaries—both physical and conceptual—that mattered to their audiences' understanding of space, access, and separation.
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Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So your offspring will be.”
But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.
It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”
He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.
He said, “Come in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.”
She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.
When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside,
When he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”
and as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”
It must be eaten in one house. You shall not carry any of the meat outside of the house. Do not break any of its bones.
if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.
You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall overlay it inside and outside, and you shall make a gold molding around it.
You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lamp stand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south. You shall put the table on the north side.
In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the covenant, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
But the meat of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp. It is a sin offering.
Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it “The Tent of Meeting.” Everyone who sought Yahweh went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp.
He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold for it around it.
He put the table in the Tent of Meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside of the veil.
—all the rest of the bull—outside of the camp to a clean place where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire. It shall be burned where the ashes are poured out.
He shall carry the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.
He shall take off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.
But the bull, and its skin, and its meat, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
The meat and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp.
Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, “Draw near, carry your brothers from before the sanctuary out of the camp.”
So they came near, and carried them in their tunics out of the camp, as Moses had said.
All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. His dwelling shall be outside of the camp.
and the priest shall go out of the camp. The priest shall examine him. Behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper,
“He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.
then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city.
He shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped all over. They shall pour out the mortar that they scraped off outside of the city into an unclean place.
He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house’s mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.
but he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field. So shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean.”
The bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried outside the camp; and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and their dung with fire.
Whatever man there is of the house of Israel who kills a bull, or lamb, or goat in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp,
“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or born abroad.
Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh continually. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
“Bring him who cursed out of the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
You shall put both male and female outside of the camp so that they don’t defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”
The children of Israel did so, and put them outside of the camp; as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so the children of Israel did.
Yahweh said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn’t she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.”
Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days, and the people didn’t travel until Miriam was brought in again.
Yahweh said to Moses, “The man shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp.”
All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face.
“A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for use in water for cleansing impurity. It is a sin offering.
Moses and Eleazar the priest, with all the princes of the congregation, went out to meet them outside of the camp.
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