PORTICO
Walkway covered by a roof supported by columns. There were mansions that had porches of this kind (1 Kings 7:6, 7). There was a magnificent portico on the east façade of Solomon’s Temple (1 Kings 6:3; Ez. 8:16; JI. 2:17).
There was sometimes a courtyard of columns on the terrace of the palaces (Judg. 3:23). The porches of the Pool of Bethesda and Solomon’s porch in the second Temple were also covered walks (John 5:2; 10:23; Gk. “stoa”).