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title: דְּבִיר — hindmost chamber · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דְּבִיר (1687), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 16 times: hindmost chamber. BDB 1906: n.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דְּבִיר

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«דְּבִיר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **hindmost chamber** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 16 times · **Key:** 1687 · **BDB:** דְּבִיר

### Glosses

room (8); the.innermost.room (6); an.innermost.room (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.)

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דְּבִיר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1687/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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