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Strong's #1687: dbiyr (pronounced deb-eer')

or (shortened) dbir {deb-eer'}; from 1696 (apparently in the sense of oracle); the shrine or innermost part of the sanctuary:--oracle.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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debı̂yr / debir

1) the holy of holies, the innermost room of the temple or tabernacle

1a) hindmost chamber, innermost room of the temple of Solomon, most holy place, holy of holies

2) (TWOT) oracle

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H1696 (apparently in the sense of oracle)



Usage:

This word is used 16 times:

1 Kings 6:5: "of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:"
1 Kings 6:16: "with boards of cedar: them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy"
1 Kings 6:19: " And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there"
1 Kings 6:20: " And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth,"
1 Kings 6:21: "and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold."
1 Kings 6:22: "also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold."
1 Kings 6:23: " And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits"
1 Kings 6:31: "And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts"
1 Kings 7:49: "on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps,"
1 Kings 8:6: "unto his place, into the oracle of the house, the most holy"
1 Kings 8:8: "out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen"
2 Chronicles 3:16: "And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made"
2 Chronicles 4:20: "that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;"
2 Chronicles 5:7: "unto his place, to the oracle of the house, the most holy"
2 Chronicles 5:9: "from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen"
Psalms 28:2: "my hands toward thy holy oracle."









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