Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1687
דְּבִיר
debirdeb-eer'
sanctuary
16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: dᵉbîyr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1687is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1687
the shrine or innermost part of the sanctuary
The King James renders it: oracle.
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
debir is rendered "sanctuary". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Eleven of the uses stand in 1 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 6:5Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.
1 Kings 6:5וְלַדְּבִ֑יר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eleven of the word's sixteen uses are in 1 Kings.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the innermost room7
- innermost room of3
- in the innermost room2
- and an innermost room1
- and to the innermost room1
- to an innermost room1
- to the innermost room1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| דְּבַשׁ | debash | honey | Uses54 |
| דְּבֵלָה | debelah | fig cake | Uses5 |
| דְּבוֹרָה | deborah | bee | Uses4 |
| דְּבַח | debach | to sacrifice | Uses1 |
| דְּבַח | debach | sacrifice | Uses1 |
| דְּבַק | debaq | to cleave | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- הַדְּבִ֔יר4
- דְּבִ֥יר3
- בַּדְּבִ֔יר2
- הַדְּבִ֖יר2
- הַדְּבִ֡יר1
- וּדְבִ֧יר1
- וְלַדְּבִ֑יר1
- לִדְבִ֔יר1
- לַדְּבִ֖יר1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular7HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HNcmsc
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular3HRd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HC/Rd/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
1 Kings
eleven uses
Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.
- וְלַדְּבִ֑ירveladevirconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and to the innermost room
He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
- לִדְבִ֔ירlidvirpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to an innermost room
Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
- וּדְבִ֧ירudevirconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and an innermost room
The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
- הַדְּבִ֡ירhadevirthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the innermost room
So Solomon overlaid the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold.
- הַדְּבִ֔ירhadevirthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the innermost room
So he overlaid with gold the whole interior of the temple, until everything was completely finished. He also overlaid with gold the entire altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.
- לַדְּבִ֖ירladevirpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the innermost room
In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim, each ten cubits high, out of olive wood.
- בַּדְּבִ֔ירbadevirpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the innermost room
For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, Solomon constructed doors of olive wood with five-sided doorposts.
- הַדְּבִ֔ירhadevirthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the innermost room
the lampstands of pure gold in front of the inner sanctuary, five on the right side and five on the left; the gold flowers, lamps, and tongs;
- הַדְּבִ֖ירhadevirthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the innermost room
Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.
- דְּבִ֥ירdevirnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: innermost room of
The poles extended far enough that their ends were visible from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are there to this day.
- הַדְּבִ֔ירhadevirthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the innermost room
2 Chronicles
four uses
He made interwoven chains and put them on top of the pillars. He made a hundred pomegranates and fastened them into the chainwork.
- בַּדְּבִ֔ירbadevirpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the innermost room
the lampstands of pure gold and their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed;
- הַדְּבִ֖ירhadevirthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the innermost room
Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.
- דְּבִ֥ירdevirnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: innermost room of
The poles of the ark extended far enough that their ends were visible from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are there to this day.
- הַדְּבִ֔ירhadevirthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the innermost room
Psalms
one use
Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
- דְּבִ֥ירdevirnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: innermost room of
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.