Temple
הֵיכַלStrong’s H1965hekhal (he-khal)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Hekhal is the Aramaic word usually translated “temple the”, “palace the” and “palace my”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace:”
Meaning
- Palace, templepalace · temple (in Jerusalem) · temple (pagan)
How it's translated
- temple the 5
- palace the 2
- to temple the 2
- in temple the 1
- in palace my 1
- palace of 1
- to palace his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 6
- Ezra 4
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 4:29In contextAt the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.
- Daniel 5:2In contextBelshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
- Daniel 5:3In contextThen they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.
- Daniel 5:5In contextIn the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
- Daniel 6:18In contextThen the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.
- Ezra 4:14Now because we have maintenance from the king’s palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king’s dishonour, therefore have we sent and certified the king;
Aramaic dictionary
הֵיכַל hekhal · temple
: temple 1) palace, temple 1a) palace 1b) temple (in Jerusalem) 1c) temple (pagan)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.