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International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Foursquare:

for'-skwar (rabha?; tetragonos): "Foursquare," meaning equal in length and breadth, not round, is the translation of rabha? (from obsolete rebha?, "four"); it occurs in the description of the altar of burnt offering (Ex 27:1; 38:1); of the altar of incense (Ex 30:2; 37:25); of the breastplate of the high priest (Ex 28:16; 39:9); of the panels of the gravings upon the mouth of the brazen or molten sea in Solomon's temple (1Ki 7:31); of the inner court of Ezekiel's temple (Eze 40:47); of "the holy oblation" of the city of Ezekiel's vision (Eze 48:20, rebhi?i, "fourth"); of the new Jerusalem of John's vision (Re 21:16, tetragonos), and conveys the idea of perfect symmetry. In the King James Version marginof 1Ki 6:31, we have "five-square," square being formerly used for equal-sided, as it still is in "three-square file."

Written by W. L. Walker

King James Dictionary

Foursquare: Squared; Four Cornered.

So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, FOURSQUARE; and the altar that was before the house. (Ezekiel 40:47)

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Foursquare:

"four-cornered" (from tetra, see above, and gonia, "a corner, or angle"), is found in Rev 21:16.