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1 Kings 6

1 Kings 6:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And βagainst the wall
qiyr (Hebrew #7023)
or (feminine) qiyrah {kee-raw'}; from 6979; a wall (as built in a trench)
KJV usage: + mason, side, town, X very, wall.
Pronounce: keer
Origin: or qir (Isa. 22:5) {keer}
of the house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
he built
banah (Hebrew #1129)
to build (literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (begin to) build(-er), obtain children, make, repair, set (up), X surely.
Pronounce: baw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root
γchambers
yatsuwa` (Hebrew #3326)
spread, i.e. a bed; (architecture) an extension, i.e. wing or lean-to (a single story or collectively)
KJV usage: bed, chamber, couch.
Pronounce: yaw-tsoo'-ah
Origin: passive participle of 3331
yatsuwa` (Hebrew #3326)
spread, i.e. a bed; (architecture) an extension, i.e. wing or lean-to (a single story or collectively)
KJV usage: bed, chamber, couch.
Pronounce: yaw-tsoo'-ah
Origin: passive participle of 3331
a round about
cabiyb (Hebrew #5439)
from 5437; (as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around
KJV usage: (place, round) about, circuit, compass, on every side.
Pronounce: saw-beeb'
Origin: or (feminine) cbiybah {seb-ee-baw'}
, against the walls
qiyr (Hebrew #7023)
or (feminine) qiyrah {kee-raw'}; from 6979; a wall (as built in a trench)
KJV usage: + mason, side, town, X very, wall.
Pronounce: keer
Origin: or qir (Isa. 22:5) {keer}
of the house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
round about
cabiyb (Hebrew #5439)
from 5437; (as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around
KJV usage: (place, round) about, circuit, compass, on every side.
Pronounce: saw-beeb'
Origin: or (feminine) cbiybah {seb-ee-baw'}
, both of the temple
heykal (Hebrew #1964)
a large public building, such as a palace or temple
KJV usage: palace, temple.
Pronounce: hay-kawl'
Origin: probably from 3201 (in the sense of capacity)
and of the oracle
dbiyr (Hebrew #1687)
from 1696 (apparently in the sense of oracle); the shrine or innermost part of the sanctuary
KJV usage: oracle.
Pronounce: deb-eer'
Origin: or (shortened) dbir {deb-eer'}
: and he made
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
δchambers
tsela` (Hebrew #6763)
from 6760; a rib (as curved), literally (of the body) or figuratively (of a door, i.e. leaf); hence, a side, literally (of a person) or figuratively (of an object or the sky, i.e. quarter); architecturally, a (especially floor or ceiling) timber or plank (single or collective, i.e. a flooring)
KJV usage: beam, board, chamber, corner, leaf, plank, rib, side (chamber).
Pronounce: tsay-law'
Origin: or (feminine) tsalTah {tsal-aw'}
round about
cabiyb (Hebrew #5439)
from 5437; (as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around
KJV usage: (place, round) about, circuit, compass, on every side.
Pronounce: saw-beeb'
Origin: or (feminine) cbiybah {seb-ee-baw'}
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against.
or, upon, or joining to.
built.
1 Chron. 9:26• 26For in their trust these four were the chief doorkeepers: they were Levites; and they were over the chambers and over the treasuries of the house of God; (1 Chron. 9:26)
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1 Chron. 23:28• 28For their place was by the side of the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of Jehovah, over the courts, and over the chambers, and over the purifying of all holy things, and for the work of the service of the house of God; (1 Chron. 23:28)
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1 Chron. 28:11• 11And David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of its houses, and of its treasuries, and of its upper chambers, and of its inner chambers, and of the house of the mercy-seat; (1 Chron. 28:11)
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2 Chron. 31:11• 11And Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of Jehovah; and they prepared them, (2 Chron. 31:11)
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Neh. 10:37• 37and that we should bring the first-fruits of our coarse meal and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, new wine and oil, to the priests, into the chambers of the house of our God, and the tithes of our ground to the Levites, that they, the Levites, should take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage. (Neh. 10:37)
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Neh. 12:44• 44And at that time men were appointed over the chambers of the treasures for the heave-offerings, for the first-fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, out of the fields of the cities, the portions assigned by the law for the priests and the Levites; for Judah rejoiced over the priests, and over the Levites that waited. (Neh. 12:44)
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Neh. 13:5‑9• 5had prepared for him a great chamber, where formerly they laid the oblations, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine and the oil, which was commanded for the Levites and the singers and the doorkeepers, and the heave-offerings of the priests.
6And during all that time I was not at Jerusalem; for in the two-and-thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I came to the king; and after some time I obtained leave of the king.
7And I came to Jerusalem, and observed the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobijah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.
8And it grieved me much, and I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobijah out of the chamber.
9And I commanded, and they purified the chambers; and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, the oblation and the frankincense.
(Neh. 13:5‑9)
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Song of Sol. 1:4• 4Draw me, we will run after thee!--The king hath brought me into his chambers--We will be glad and rejoice in thee, We will remember thy love more than wine. They love thee uprightly. (Song of Sol. 1:4)
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Jer. 35:4• 4and I brought them into the house of Jehovah, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold. (Jer. 35:4)
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Ezek. 40:44• 44And outside the inner gate were two cells in the inner court, one at the side of the north gate, and its front towards the south; the other was at the side of the south gate, the front towards the north. (Ezek. 40:44)
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Ezek. 41:5‑11• 5And he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of the side-chambers, four cubits, round about the house on every side.
6And the side-chambers were three, chamber over chamber, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which the house had for the side-chambers round about, that they might have hold; but they had not hold in the wall of the house.
7And for the side-chambers there was an enlarging, and it went round about the house increasing upward; for the surrounding of the house increased upward round about the house; therefore the house had width upward, and so ascended from the lower story to the upper, by the middle one.
8And I saw that the house had an elevation round about: the foundations of the side-chambers, a full reed, six cubits to the joint.
9The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers without, was five cubits, as also what was left free along the building of the side-chambers that pertained to the house.
10And between the cells and the house was a width of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.
11And the entry of the side-chambers was toward what was left free, one entry toward the north, and one entry toward the south; and the width of the space left free was five cubits round about.
(Ezek. 41:5‑11)
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Ezek. 42:3‑12• 3over against the twenty cubits that pertained to the inner court, and over against the pavement that pertained to the outer court; there was gallery against gallery in the third story;
4and before the cells was a walk of ten cubits in breadth, and a way of a hundred cubits inward; and their entries were toward the north.
5And the upper cells, because the galleries encroached on them, were shorter than the lower, and than the middle-most of the building.
6For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts; therefore the third story was straitened more than the lowest and the middle-most from the ground.
7And the wall that was without, answering to the cells, toward the outer court in the front of the cells, its length was fifty cubits:
8for the length of the cells that were against the outer court was fifty cubits; but behold, before the temple it was a hundred cubits.
9And under these cells was the entry from the east, as one goeth into them from the outer court.
10In the breadth of the wall of the court toward the south, before the separate place, and before the building, were cells;
11and a passage before them, like the appearance of the cells that were toward the north, according to their length, according to their breadth and all their goings out, and according to their fashions, and according to their doors.
12And according to the doors of the cells that were toward the south there was a door at the head of the way, the way directly before the corresponding wall toward the east as one entereth into them.
(Ezek. 42:3‑12)
chambers.
Heb. floors.These appear to have been what we should now call corridors or galleries; in which were apartments for the use of the priests.
They consisted of three stories, and increased one cubit in breadth in every story, the wall of the temple being two cubits thicker at the bottom than at the top; and where the wall diminished, a rest was thus formed for the beams of the chambers to lodge upon.oracle.
1 Kings 6:16,19‑21,31• 16And he built twenty cubits of the innermost part of the house, both floor and walls, with boards of cedar; and he built them for it within, to be the oracle, the most holy place.
19And he prepared the oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.
20And the oracle within was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof; and he overlaid it with pure gold; and he overlaid the cedar-wood altar--
21and Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold, and shut off the oracle in front with chains of gold, and overlaid it with gold.
31And for the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive-wood: the lintel and side posts were the fifth part of the breadth of the house.
(1 Kings 6:16,19‑21,31)
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Ex. 25:22• 22And there will I meet with thee, and will speak with thee from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, everything that I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel. (Ex. 25:22)
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Lev. 16:2• 2and Jehovah said to Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the sanctuary inside the veil before the mercy-seat which is upon the ark, that he die not; for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy-seat. (Lev. 16:2)
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Num. 7:89• 89And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with Him, then he heard the voice speaking to him from off the mercy-seat which was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubim; and he spoke to Him. (Num. 7:89)
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2 Chron. 4:20• 20and the candlesticks with their lamps to burn according to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold; (2 Chron. 4:20)
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2 Chron. 5:7,9• 7And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Jehovah to its place, into the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubim;
9And the staves were long, so that the ends of the staves were seen outside the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there they are to this day.
(2 Chron. 5:7,9)
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Psa. 28:2• 2Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward the oracle of thy holiness. (Psa. 28:2)
chambers.
Heb. ribs.
 The temple being God’s dwelling place, it is necessarily also the dwelling place of those who are His (John. 14:2; 4:21-24). This is why Solomon’s temple shows us the priests’ rooms as being one with the house. (The Temple: 1 Kings 6 by H.L. Rossier)
 All around the temple, except at its entrance, naturally, were the side chambers, dwellings of the priests. (The Temple: 1 Kings 6 by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And against the wall of the house he built floorsd round about, against the walls of the house, round about the temple and the oracle; and he made side-chambers round about.

JND Translation Notes

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"Floors" or "flats" in three stories.