Temple
הֵיכָלStrong’s H1964hekhal (he-khal)
Appears in 76 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Hekhal is the Hebrew word usually translated “temple of”, “temple” and “palace of”. It appears in 76 verses of the Old Testament.
“Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.”
Meaning
- Palace, temple, nave, sanctuarypalace · temple (palace of God as king) · hall, nave (of Ezekiel's temple) · temple (of heavenly temple)
How it's translated
- temple of 21
- the temple 15
- in temple of 6
- in palace of 4
- temple his 3
- from temple his 2
- of the temple 2
- from temple of 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 13
- Ezekiel 9
- 2 Chronicles 8
- 1 Kings 7
- Isaiah 5
- Zechariah 5
23 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 6:12In contextAnd speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
- Zechariah 6:13In contextEven he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
- Zechariah 6:14In contextAnd the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of the LORD.
- Zechariah 6:15In contextAnd they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD, and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.
- Zechariah 8:9In contextThus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.
- 1 Samuel 1:9So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD.
All 76 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
הֵיכָל hekhal · temple
: temple 1) palace, temple, nave, sanctuary 1a) palace 1b) temple (palace of God as king) 1c) hall, nave (of Ezekiel's temple) 1d) temple (of heavenly temple)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “temple” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TEM'PLE, noun
[Latin templum.]
- A public edifice erected in honor of some deity.
- A church; an edifice erected among christians as a place of public worship.
- A place in which the divine presence specially resides; the church as a collective body. Ephesians 2:21
- In England, the Temples are two inns of court, thus called because anciently the dwellings of the knights Templars.
All definitions and other forms of “temple”
TEM'PLE, noun
[Latin tempus, tempora. The primary sense of the root of this word is to fall. See Time.]
- Literally, the fall of the head; the part where the head slopes from the top.
- In anatomy, the anterior and lateral part of the head, where the skull is covered by the temporal muscles.
TEM'PLE, verb transitive
To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to. [Little used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.