Hebrew noun (Aramaic, masculine) · H1965
הֵיכַל
hekalhay-kal'
temple
13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: hêykal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1965is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1965
{a large public building, such as a palace or temple}
The King James renders it: palace, temple.
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
hekal is rendered "temple". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Ezra, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 4:14Now because we are in the service of the palace and it is not fitting for us to allow the king to be dishonored, we have sent to inform the king
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
Now because we are in the service of the palace and it is not fitting for us to allow the king to be dishonored, we have sent to inform the king
Ezra 4:14הֵֽיכְלָא֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- temple the5
- palace the2
- to temple the2
- in palace my1
- in temple the1
- palace of1
- to palace his1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הֵיכָל | hekal | temple | Uses80 |
All 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 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
- הֵֽיכְלָא֙3
- הֵיכְלָ֖א2
- בְּהֵיכְלָ֖א1
- בְּהֵיכְלִֽי׃1
- הֵיכַ֧ל1
- הֵֽיכְלָ֛א1
- הֵיכְלָ֥א1
- לְהֵיכְלָ֖א1
- לְהֵיכְלָ֤א1
- לְהֵֽיכְלֵהּ֙1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)7ANcbsd/Ta
- preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)3AR/Ncbsd/Ta
- noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1ANcbsc
- preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1AR/Ncbsc/Sp1bs
- preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1AR/Ncbsc/Sp3ms
Ezra
seven uses
Now because we are in the service of the palace and it is not fitting for us to allow the king to be dishonored, we have sent to inform the king
- הֵֽיכְלָא֙heikhela'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: palace the
He also removed from the temple of Babylon the gold and silver articles belonging to the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken and carried there from the temple in Jerusalem. King Cyrus gave these articles to a man named Sheshbazzar, whom he appointed governor
- הֵֽיכְלָא֙heikhela'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: temple the
- לְהֵיכְלָ֖אleheikhela'preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: to temple the
- הֵֽיכְלָא֙heikhela'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: temple the
and instructed, ‘Take these articles, put them in the temple in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt on its original site.’
- בְּהֵיכְלָ֖אbeheikhela'preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: in temple the
Furthermore, the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and carried to Babylon, must also be returned to the temple in Jerusalem and deposited in the house of God.
- הֵיכְלָ֥אheikhla'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: temple the
- לְהֵיכְלָ֤אleheikhela'preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: to temple the
Daniel
six uses
I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and flourishing in my palace.
- בְּהֵיכְלִֽי׃beheikhelipreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: in palace my
Twelve months later, as he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon,
- הֵיכַ֧לheikhalnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: palace of
Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king could drink from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.
- הֵיכְלָ֖אheikhla'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: temple the
Thus they brought in the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king drank from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.
- הֵֽיכְלָ֛אheikhla'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: temple the
At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,
- הֵיכְלָ֖אheikhla'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: palace the
Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting. No entertainment was brought before him, and sleep fled from him.
- לְהֵֽיכְלֵהּ֙leheikhelehpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to palace his
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.