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Strong's G5109 τοῖχος (toichos)

Toichos means “wall” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H5109 — nobay (“Nobai”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G5109
Language Greek
Linked Usages 68
Books 24

Strong's G5109 Quick Answer

Strong's G5109 τοῖχος (toichos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. toichos (toy`-khos) n. 1. a wall [another form of G5038] It has 68 linked Bible usages across 24 books. Visible English usage signals include wall. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
toichos (toy`-khos) n. 1. a wall [another form of G5038]
Usage
68 linked usages
Books
24 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
wall

Meaning and Definition

toichos (toy`-khos) n. 1. a wall [another form of G5038] KJV: wall Root(s): G5038

Original Word
τοῖχος
Transliteration
toichos
Derivation
Root: τείχος R1: 5038
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5109. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

wall

Usage: τοῖχος, -ου, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for קִיר ;] a wall, esp. of a house: figuratively, Act.23:3 (cf. τεῖχος).† (AS)

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How Strong's G5109 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render toichos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

wall Acts 23:3

How Strong's G5109 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, 1 Enoch, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 58 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G5109 (τοῖχος) appears 75 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G5109 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G5109 in the New Testament

1 indexed usage in New Testament.

Acts 23:3 KJV

Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?

Strong's G5109 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

58 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Exodus 30:3 Septuagint / Brenton

And thou shalt gild its grate with pure gold, and its sides round about, and its horns; and thou shalt make for it a wreathen border of gold roundabout.

Leviticus 5:9 Septuagint / Brenton

And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, but the rest of the blood he shall drop at the foot of the altar, for it is a sin offering.

Leviticus 14:37 Septuagint / Brenton

And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house, he will see greenish or reddish cavities, and the appearance of them will be beneath the surface of the walls.

Strong's G5109 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

7 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 6:8 Septuagint / Brenton

Let all things be known unto our lord the king, that being come into the country of Judea, and entered into the city of Jerusalem, we found in the city of Jerusalem the ancients of the Jews that were of the captivity

Tobit 2:9 Septuagint / Brenton

The same night also I returned from the burial, and slept by the wall of my courtyard, being polluted, and my face was uncovered:

Tobit 2:10 Septuagint / Brenton

and I knew not that there were sparrows in the wall, and mine eyes being open, the sparrows muted warm dung into mine eyes, and a whiteness came in mine eyes; and I went to the physicians, but they helped me not: moreover Ahikar did nourish me, until I went into Elymais.

Strong's G5109 in 1 Enoch

2 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 14:10 Septuagint / Brenton

me. And I went into the tongues of fire and drew nigh to a large house which was built of crystals: and the walls of the house were like a tesselated floor (made) of crystals, and its groundwork was

1 Enoch 14:12 Septuagint / Brenton

fiery cherubim, and their heaven was (clear as) water. A flaming fire surrounded the walls, and its

Usage Excerpts

First 68 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5109.

Exodus 30:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt gild its grate with pure gold, and its sides round about, and its horns; and thou shalt make for it a wreathen border of gold roundabout.
Leviticus 5:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, but the rest of the blood he shall drop at the foot of the altar, for it is a sin offering.
Leviticus 14:37 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house, he will see greenish or reddish cavities, and the appearance of them will be beneath the surface of the walls.
Leviticus 14:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priest shall return on the seventh day and view the house; and, behold, if the plague is spread in the walls of the house,
Numbers 22:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when the ass saw the angel of God, she thrust herself against the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall, and he smote her again.
Judges 16:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Delilah said to Samson, Behold, thou hast deceived me, and told me lies; tell me, I entreat thee, wherewith thou mayest be bound: and he said to her, If thou shouldest weave the seven locks of my head with the web, and shouldest fasten them with the pin into the wall, then shall I be weak as another man.
Judges 16:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass when he was asleep, that Delilah took the seven locks of his head, and wove them with the web, and fastened them with the pin into the wall, and she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson: and he awoke out of his sleep, and carried away the pin of the web out of the wall.
1 Kingdoms 19:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Saul sought to smite David with the spear; and David withdrew suddenly from the presence of Saul; and he drove the spear into the wall; and David retreated and escaped.
1 Kingdoms 20:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he sat upon his seat as in former times, even on his seat by the wall, and he went before Jonathan; and Abner sat on one side of Saul, and the place of David was empty.
1 Kingdoms 25:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So God do to David and more also, if I leave one male of all that belong to Nabal until the morning.
1 Kingdoms 25:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But surely as the Lord God of Israel lives, who hindered me this day from doing thee harm, if thou hadst not hastened and come to meet me, then I said, There shall surely not be left to Nabal till the morning one male.
3 Kingdoms 5:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he spoke of trees, from the cedar in Lebanon even to the hyssop which comes out through the wall: he spoke also of cattle, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fish.
3 Kingdoms 6:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
3 Kingdoms 6:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
was five cubits broad, and the middle part six, and the third was seven cubits broad; for he formed an interval to the house round about without the house, that they might not touch the walls of the house.
3 Kingdoms 6:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
3 Kingdoms 6:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
were in the midst of the innermost part of the house; and they spread out their wings, and one wing touched the wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings in the midst of the house touched each other.
3 Kingdoms 6:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
he sculptured palm trees within and without the house.
3 Kingdoms 20:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
behold, I bring evil upon thee: and I will kindle a fire after thee, and I will utterly destroy every male of Ahab, and him that is shut up and him that is left in Israel.
4 Kingdoms 3:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they razed the cities, and cast every man his stone on every good piece of land and filled it; and they stopped every well, and cut down every good tree, until they left only the stones of the wall cast down; and the slingers compassed the land, and smote it.
4 Kingdoms 9:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and at the hand of the whole house of Ahab: and thou shalt utterly cut off from the house of Ahab every male, and him that is shut up and left in Israel.
4 Kingdoms 9:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said, Throw her down. And they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and they trampled on her.
4 Kingdoms 20:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Hezekiah turned to the wall, and prayed to the Lord, saying,
1 Chronicles 14:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar timbers, and masons, and carpenters, to build a house for him.
1 Chronicles 29:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Three thousand talents of gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of fine silver, for the overlaying of the walls of the sanctuary:
2 Chronicles 3:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he gilded the house, and its inner walls, and the doorposts, and the roofs, and the doors with gold; and he carved cherubs on the walls.
2 Chronicles 3:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the wings of the cherubs were twenty cubits in length: and one wing of five cubits touched the wall of the house: and the other wing of five cubits touched the wing of the other cherub.
2 Chronicles 3:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub.
Ezra 5:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.
Job 33:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He will support him, that he should not perish, And will restore his body as fresh plaster upon a wall; And he will fill his bones with marrow.
Psalms 61:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
How long will ye assault a man? Ye are all slaughtering As with a bowed wall and a broken hedge.
Song of Solomon 2:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
My kinsman is like a roe Or a young hart on the mountains of Bethel: Behold, he is behind our wall, Looking through the windows, Peeping through the lattices.
Isaiah 5:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be for a spoil; and I will pull down its walls, and it shall be left to be trodden down.
Isaiah 23:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if thou depart to the land of the Chaldeans, this also is laid waste by the Assyrians, for her wall is fallen.
Isaiah 25:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall bring down the height of the refuge of the wall, and it shall come down even to the ground.
Isaiah 38:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord, saying,
Isaiah 59:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They shall feel for the wall as blind men, and shall feel for it as if they had no eyes: and they shall feel at noonday as at midnight; they shall groan as dying men.
Ezekiel 4:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And take thou to thyself an iron pan, and thou shalt set it for an iron wall between thee and the city: and thou shalt set thy face against it, and it shall be in a siege, and thou shalt besiege it. This is a sign to the children of Israel.
Ezekiel 12:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Dig for thyself into the wall of the house, and thou shalt pass through it in their sight:
Ezekiel 12:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I did thus according to all that he commanded me; and I carried forth my baggage for captivity by day, and in the evening I dug through the wall for myself, and went out secretly; I was taken up on men’s shoulders before them.
Ezekiel 12:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the prince in the midst of them shall be borne upon shoulders, and shall go forth in secret through the wall, and shall dig so that he may go forth thereby: he shall cover his face, that he may not be seen by any eye, and he himself shall not see the ground.
Ezekiel 13:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Because they have caused my people to err, saying, Peace; and there is no peace; and one builds a wall, and they plaster it—it shall fall.
Ezekiel 13:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And lo! the wall has fallen; and will they not say to you, Where is your plaster wherewith ye plastered it?
Ezekiel 13:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will break down the wall which ye have plastered, and it shall fall; and I will lay it on the ground, and its foundations shall be discovered, and it shall fall; and ye shall be consumed with rebukes: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 13:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that plaster it; it shall fall: and I said to you, The wall is not, nor they that plaster it,
Ezekiel 23:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she increased her fornication, and she saw men painted on the wall, likenesses of the Chaldeans painted with a pencil,
Ezekiel 40:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he measured the gate from the wall of one chamber to the wall of the other chamber: the breadth was twenty-five cubits, the one gate over against the other gate.
Ezekiel 41:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he measured the wall of the house, six cubits: and the breadth of each side, four cubits round about.
Ezekiel 41:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the sides were twice ninety, side against side; and there was a space in the wall of the house at the sides round about, that they should be for them that take hold of them to see, that they should not at all touch the walls of the house.
Ezekiel 41:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the breadth of the upper side was made according to the projection out of the wall, against the upper one round about the house, that it might be enlarged above, and that men might go up to the upper chambers from those below, and from the groundsills to the third story.
Ezekiel 41:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and the breadth of the wall of each side without was five cubits; and the spaces that were left between the sides of the house,
Ezekiel 41:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the partition wall in front of the remaining space, toward the west, was seventy cubits in breadth; the breadth of the partition wall was five cubits round about, and the length of it ninety cubits.
Ezekiel 41:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he measured in front of the house a length of a hundred cubits, and the remaining spaces and the partitions; and the walls thereof were in length a hundred cubits.
Ezekiel 41:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And almost all the way to the inner, and close to the outer side, and upon all the wall round about within and without,
Ezekiel 41:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
a wooden altar, the height of it three cubits, and the length two cubits, and the breadth two cubits; and it had horns, and the base of it and the sides of it were of wood: and he said to me, This is the table, which is before the face of the Lord.
Ezekiel 43:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
when they set my doorway by their doorway, and my thresholds near to their thresholds: and they made my wall as it were joining myself and them, and they profaned my holy name with their iniquities which they wrought: and I destroyed them in my wrath and with slaughter.
Daniel 5:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote in front of the lamp on the plaster of the wall of the king’s house: and the king saw the knuckles of the hand that wrote.
Amos 5:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him; and he should spring into his house, and lean his hands upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.
Habakkuk 2:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beetle out of the timber shall speak.
Acts 23:3 New Testament, KJV
Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?
1 Esdras 6:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Let all things be known unto our lord the king, that being come into the country of Judea, and entered into the city of Jerusalem, we found in the city of Jerusalem the ancients of the Jews that were of the captivity
Tobit 2:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The same night also I returned from the burial, and slept by the wall of my courtyard, being polluted, and my face was uncovered:
Tobit 2:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and I knew not that there were sparrows in the wall, and mine eyes being open, the sparrows muted warm dung into mine eyes, and a whiteness came in mine eyes; and I went to the physicians, but they helped me not: moreover Ahikar did nourish me, until I went into Elymais.
Wisdom of Solomon 13:15 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And when he had made a convenient room for it, Set it in a wall, and made it fast with iron:
Wisdom of Sirach 14:24 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
He that doth lodge near her house Shall also fasten a pin in her walls.
Wisdom of Sirach 22:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
A heart settled upon a thought of understanding Is as a fair plastering on the wall of a gallery.
Wisdom of Sirach 23:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
A man that breaketh wedlock, Saying thus in his heart, Who seeth me? I am compassed about with darkness, The walls cover me, And no body seeth me; what need I to fear? The most High will not remember my sins:
1 Enoch 14:10 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
me. And I went into the tongues of fire and drew nigh to a large house which was built of crystals: and the walls of the house were like a tesselated floor (made) of crystals, and its groundwork was
1 Enoch 14:12 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
fiery cherubim, and their heaven was (clear as) water. A flaming fire surrounded the walls, and its

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5109, grouped by book.

Exodus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezra 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Song of Solomon 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 19 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
1 Esdras 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Tobit 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 2 usages, 1 Enoch

Strong's G5109 FAQ

What does toichos (τοῖχος) mean?

Toichos (Strong's G5109) is a Greek word most simply glossed "wall". toichos (toy`-khos) n. 1. a wall [another form of G5038]

How many times is toichos (τοῖχος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 68 linked usages for Strong's G5109 across 24 books.

Where can I study toichos (τοῖχος) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5109 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate toichos (τοῖχος)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as wall. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G5109 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 58 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 7 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 2 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G5109, with linked reader references where each row is available.