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# דְּבִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1687

**hindmost chamber** — used 16 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

hindmost chamber [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1687/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דְּבִיר: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1687/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. (cf. Arabic دُبُرٌ back, دَبْرٌ part behind) hindmost chamber, innermost room of the temple of Solomon = קדשׁ הקדשׁים holy of holies, most holy place, the place of the ark and the cherubic images, the throne-room of Yahweh 1 K 6:5, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 31; 7:49 (= 2 Ch 4:20) 8:6, 8 (= 2 Ch 5:7, 9) 2 Ch 3:16 ψ 28:2. Prob. read דְּבִיר 2 K 10:25 also, for MT עִיר; so Klo after 𝔊L. (It is translated oracle in AV RV after Aq Sym χρηματιστήριον, 𝔙 oraculum, on the incorrect theory that it was derived from דִּבֶּר speak.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: room (8); the innermost room (6); an innermost room (2).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 6:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.23/#tree)

וַיַּ֣עַשׂ בַּדְּבִ֔יר שְׁנֵ֥י כְרוּבִ֖ים עֲצֵי־שָׁ֑מֶן עֶ֥שֶׂר אַמּ֖וֹת קוֹמָתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.made in the.innermost room two cherubim wood(s) of.olive \[was\].ten cubits height its

*JPS 1917:* And in the Sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive-wood, each ten cubits high.

[1 Kings 6:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.31/#tree)

וְאֵת֙ פֶּ֣תַח הַדְּבִ֔יר עָשָׂ֖ה דַּלְת֣וֹת עֲצֵי־שָׁ֑מֶן הָאַ֥יִל מְזוּז֖וֹת חֲמִשִֽׁית׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.entrance of the.innermost.room he.made doors of.wood(s) of.olive the pillar doorposts of.fifth

*JPS 1917:* And for the entrance of the Sanctuary he made doors of olive-wood, the door-posts within the frame having five angles.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1687.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1687/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).