devir · inner sanctuary

What it means

devir (דְּבִיר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “inner sanctuary”.

The back room of the temple, where the ark was; the Most Holy Place. It is a word found in the accounts of the temple.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The inner room of the temple, where the ark was.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×11
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Psalms×1

• 1 Kings 6:5

  And he built against the wall of the house an annex all around, against the walls of the house all around the temple and the inner sanctuary; and he made side chambers all around.

• 1 Kings 6:16

  And he built the twenty cubits at the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls; and he built them for it on the inside as an inner sanctuary, as the Most Holy Place.

• 1 Kings 6:19

  And the inner sanctuary in the midst of the house on the inside he prepared, to put there the ark of the covenant of YHWH.

• 1 Kings 6:20

  And the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits its height; and he overlaid it with fine gold; and he overlaid an altar of cedar.

• 1 Kings 6:21

  And Solomon overlaid the house on the inside with fine gold; and he drew chains of gold across the front of the inner sanctuary and overlaid it with gold.

• 1 Kings 6:22

  And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished; and the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold.

• 1 Kings 6:23

  And he made in the inner sanctuary two cherubim of olive wood, ten cubits was its height.

• 1 Kings 6:31

  And for the entrance of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive wood; the lintel and doorposts were five-sided.

• 1 Kings 7:49

  and the lampstands, five on the right and five on the left, before the inner sanctuary, of fine gold; and the flowers, and the lamps, and the snuffers, of gold;

• 1 Kings 8:6

  And the priests brought the ark of the covenant of YHWH to its place, to the inner sanctuary of the house, to the Most Holy Place, to beneath the wings of the cherubim.

• 1 Kings 8:8

  And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they were not seen outside; and they are there to this day.

• 2 Chronicles 3:16

  He made chains in the inner sanctuary and put them on the top of the pillars; and he made a hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains.

• 2 Chronicles 4:20

  the lampstands and their lamps, to burn according to the rule before the inner sanctuary, of fine gold;

• 2 Chronicles 5:7

  The priests brought the ark of the covenant of YHWH to its place, to the inner sanctuary of the house, to the Most Holy Place, under the wings of the cherubim.

• 2 Chronicles 5:9

  The poles were long, so that the ends of the poles were seen from the ark, in front of the inner sanctuary, but they were not seen outside; and it has been there to this day.

• Psalms 28:2

  Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry for help to you, when I lift my hands toward your holy inner sanctuary.