הֵיכָלhêykâl

palace, temple

Pronunciation: hay-kawl' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1964

Meanings

1. rather seldom (royal) palace (1 Kings 21:1; 2 Kings 20:18; Isaiah 38:17)

2. temple, of palace of God considered as king, = house of God or of ׳ י (Isaiah 6:1)

b. hall, nave (1 Kings 6:1; 1 Kings 6:2; 1 Kings 6:17)

c. hall, nave (Ezekiel 41:1; Ezekiel 41:4; Ezekiel 41:15)

d. nd temple (Zechariah 8:9; Haggai 2:15; Haggai 2:18)

e. id. (Isaiah 6:1; 2 Samuel 22:7; Psalms 18:7)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 80 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Samuel 1:9 Once after a sacrificial meal at Shiloh, Hannah got up and went to pray. Eli the priest was sitting at his customary place beside the entrance of the Tabernacle.
  • 1 Samuel 3:3 The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was sleeping in the Tabernacle near the Ark of God.
  • 2 Samuel 22:7 But in my distress I cried out to the Lord; yes, I cried to my God for help. He heard me from his sanctuary; my cry reached his ears.
  • 1 Kings 6:3 The entry room at the front of the Temple was 30 feet wide, running across the entire width of the Temple. It projected outward 15 feet from the front of the Temple.
  • 1 Kings 6:5 He built a complex of rooms against the outer walls of the Temple, all the way around the sides and rear of the building.
  • 1 Kings 6:17 The main room of the Temple, outside the Most Holy Place, was 60 feet long.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).