Strong's Hebrew · H1687

דְּבִיר

dᵉbîyr · deb-eer'

oracle.

Definition

the shrine or innermost part of the sanctuary

Derivation

or (shortened) דְּבִר; from H1696 (דָבַר) (apparently in the sense of oracle);

Appears 16 times in Scripture

1 Kings 7:49

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;

1 Kings 6:16

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.

1 Kings 6:23

In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim, each ten cubits high, out of olive wood.

1 Kings 6:20

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.

1 Kings 6:22

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.

1 Kings 6:21

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.

Psalms 28:2

Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

1 Kings 6:19

Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.

1 Kings 6:5

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 6:31

For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, Solomon constructed doors of olive wood with five-sided doorposts.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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