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דְּבִיר

devir · Debir

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1688 · appears 14 times in the Bible

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What it means

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

The name of a king of Eglon and of places in Palestine; the best known is a city in the hill country of Judah.

How to say it

de·vir

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.

Where it appears

  • Joshua 10:3

    So Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,

  • Joshua 10:38

    Then Joshua turned back, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and fought against it.

  • Joshua 10:39

    He took it and its king and all its cities, and they struck them with the edge of the sword and devoted to destruction every person who was in it; he left no survivor. As he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and to its king, and as he had done to Libnah and to its king.

  • Joshua 11:21

    And Joshua came at that time and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah and from all the hill country of Israel; with their cities Joshua devoted them to destruction.

  • Joshua 12:13

    the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;

  • Joshua 13:26

    and from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;

  • Joshua 15:7

    and the border went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, and northward turned to Gilgal, which is opposite the Ascent of Adummim, which is south of the brook; and the border passed along to the waters of En-shemesh, and its ends were at En-rogel;

  • Joshua 15:15

    And he went up from there against the inhabitants of Debir; and the name of Debir was formerly Kiriath-sepher.

  • Joshua 15:49

    Dannah, Kiriath-sannah (that is Debir),

  • Joshua 21:15

    and Holon with its pasturelands, and Debir with its pasturelands,

  • Judges 1:11

    From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir (the name of Debir formerly was Kiriath-sepher).

  • 1 Chronicles 6:58

    Hilen with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands,

And 2 more times.