δαβιρ
inner sanctuary, oracle
Where this word appears
Every passage where δαβιρ appears in the Greek Septuagint — 26 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Joshua 10:3 δαβιρ So Adoni-bezec king of Jerusalem sent to Elam king of Hebron, and to Phidon king of Jerimuth, and to Jephtha king of Lachis, and to Dabin king of Odollam, saying,
- Joshua 10:38 δαβιρ And Joshua and all Israel returned to Dabir; and they encamped about it;
- Joshua 10:39 δαβιρ and they took it, and its king, and its villages: and he struck it with the edge of the sword, and they destroyed it, and every thing breathing in it; and they did not leave in it any one that was preserved: as they did to Chebron and her king, so they did to Dabir and her king.
- Joshua 11:21 δαβιρ And Joshua came at that time, and utterly destroyed the Enakim out of the hill country, from Chebron and from Dabir, and from Anaboth, and from all the race of Israel, and from all the mountain of Juda with their cities; and Joshua utterly destroyed them.
- Joshua 12:13 δαβιρ the king of Dabir, the king of Gader:
- Joshua 13:26 δαβιρ And from Esebon to Araboth by Massepha, and Botanim, and Maan to the borders of Daebon,
- Joshua 15:15 δαβιρ And Chaleb went up thence to the inhabitants of Dabir; and the name of Dabir before was the city of Letters.
- Joshua 15:15 δαβιρ And Chaleb went up thence to the inhabitants of Dabir; and the name of Dabir before was the city of Letters.
- Joshua 15:49 δαβιρ and Renna and the city of Letters, this is Dabir;
- Joshua 21:15 δαβιρ and Gella and its suburbs; and Dabir and its suburbs;
- Judges 1:11 δαβιρ And they went up thence to the inhabitants of Dabir; but the name of Dabir was before Cariathsepher, the city of Letters.
- Judges 1:11 δαβιρ And they went up thence to the inhabitants of Dabir; but the name of Dabir was before Cariathsepher, the city of Letters.
- 1 Kings 6:5 δαβιρ And against the wall of the house he set chambers round about the temple and the ark.
- 1 Kings 6:16 δαβιρ And he built the twenty cubits from the top of the wall, one side from the floor to the beams, and he made it from the oracle to the most holy place.
- 1 Kings 6:19 δαβιρ in front of the oracle in the midst of the house within, in order to put there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
- 1 Kings 6:21 δαβιρ And he covered the whole house with gold, till he had finished gilding the whole house.
- 1 Kings 6:23 δαβιρ And he made in the oracle two cherubs of ten cubits measured size.
- 1 Kings 6:31 δαβιρ And for the door-way of the oracle he made doors of juniper wood, there were porches in a four-fold way.
- 1 Kings 7:35 δαβιρ And on the top of the base half a cubit was the size of it, there was a circle on the top of the base, and there was the top of its spaces and its borders: and it was open at the top of its spaces.
- 1 Kings 8:6 δαβιρ And the priests bring in the ark into its place, into the oracle of the house, even into the holy of holies, under the wings of the cherubs.
- 1 Kings 8:8 δαβιρ And the holy staves projected, and the ends of the holy staves appeared out of the holy places in front of the oracle, and were not seen without.
- 1 Chronicles 6:43 δαβιρ the son of Jeeth, the son of Gedson, the son of Levi.
- 2 Chronicles 3:16 δαβιρ And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
- 2 Chronicles 4:20 δαβιρ also the candlesticks, and the lamps to give light according to the pattern, and in front of the oracle, of pure gold.
- 2 Chronicles 5:7 δαβιρ And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord into its place, into the oracle of the house, even into the holy of holies, under the wings of the cherubs.
- 2 Chronicles 5:9 δαβιρ And the staves projected, and the heads of the staves were seen from the holy place in front of the oracle, they were not seen without: and there they were to this day.
About this word
About this word
δαβιρ (dabir), “inner sanctuary, oracle,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 26 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →