Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1002
בִּירָה
birahbee-raw'
palace
16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bîyrâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1002is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1002
a castle or palace
The King James renders it: palace.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
birah is rendered "palace". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Ten of the uses stand in Esther, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Chronicles 29:1Then King David said to the whole assembly, “My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is young and inexperienced. The task is great because this palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
Then King David said to the whole assembly, “My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is young and inexperienced. The task is great because this palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.
1 Chronicles 29:1הַבִּירָ֔ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Ten of the word's sixteen uses are in Esther.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the citadel14
- the temple2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַבִּירָ֖ה3
- הַבִּירָ֔ה2
- הַבִּירָ֑ה2
- הַבִּירָֽה׃2
- הַבִּירָ֥ה1
- הַבִּירָ֤ה1
- הַבִּירָ֜ה1
- הַבִּירָה֙1
- הַבִּירָ֗ה1
- הַבִּירָ֡ה1
- הַבִּירָֽה׃ פ1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular16HTd/Ncfsa
1 Chronicles
two uses
Then King David said to the whole assembly, “My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is young and inexperienced. The task is great because this palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.
- הַבִּירָ֔הhabirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the temple
And give my son Solomon a whole heart to keep and carry out all Your commandments, decrees, and statutes, and to build Your palace for which I have made provision.”
- הַבִּירָ֥הhabirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the temple
Nehemiah
three uses
These are the words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah: In the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa,
- הַבִּירָֽה׃habirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the citadel
And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the king’s forest, so that he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel to the temple, for the city wall, and for the house I will occupy.” And because the gracious hand of my God was upon me, the king granted my requests.
- הַבִּירָ֤הhabirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the citadel
Then I put my brother Hanani in charge of Jerusalem, along with Hananiah the commander of the fortress, because he was a faithful man who feared God more than most.
- הַבִּירָ֖הhabirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the citadel
Esther
ten uses
In those days King Xerxes sat on his royal throne in the citadel of Susa.
- הַבִּירָֽה׃habirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the citadel
At the end of this time, in the garden court of the royal palace, the king held a seven-day feast for all the people in the citadel of Susa, from the least to the greatest.
- הַבִּירָ֜הhabirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the citadel
and let the king appoint commissioners in each province of his kingdom to assemble all the beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch in charge of the women, and let them be given beauty treatments.
- הַבִּירָה֙habirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the citadel
Now there was at the citadel of Susa a Jewish man from the tribe of Benjamin named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish.
- הַבִּירָ֑הhabirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the citadel
When the king’s command and edict had been proclaimed, many young women gathered at the citadel of Susa under the care of Hegai. Esther was also taken to the palace and placed under the care of Hegai, the custodian of the women.
- הַבִּירָ֖הhabirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the citadel
The couriers left, spurred on by the king’s command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. Then the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was in confusion.
- הַבִּירָ֑הhabirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the citadel
The couriers rode out in haste on their royal horses, pressed on by the command of the king. And the edict was also issued in the citadel of Susa.
- הַבִּירָֽה׃ פhabirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the citadel
In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men,
- הַבִּירָ֗הhabirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the citadel
On that day the number of those killed in the citadel of Susa was reported to the king,
- הַבִּירָ֖הhabirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the citadel
who said to Queen Esther, “In the citadel of Susa the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men, including Haman’s ten sons. What have they done in the rest of the royal provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given to you. And what further do you request? It will be fulfilled.”
- הַבִּירָ֡הhabirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the citadel
Daniel
one use
And in the vision I saw myself in the citadel of Susa, in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision that I was beside the Ulai Canal.
- הַבִּירָ֔הhabirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the citadel
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.