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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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or, upon, or joining to.
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Ezek. 41:6• 6And the side-chambers [were], one over another, three and thirty times; and they entered into the wall which [was] on the house, for the side-chambers round about, that they might be fastened on, but they were not fastened on the wall of the house. (Ezek. 41:6)
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floors.
δ
ribs.

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Chamber,
House,
Oracle,
The Temple,
Walls

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Ministry on This Verse

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against.
or, upon, or joining to.
built.
1 Chron. 9:26• 26{i}For 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;{/i} (1 Chron. 9:26)
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1 Chron. 23:28• 28because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of Jehovah, {i}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;{/i} (1 Chron. 23:28)
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1 Chron. 28:11• 11{i}And 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;{/i} (1 Chron. 28:11)
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2 Chron. 31:11• 11{i}And Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of Jehovah; and they prepared them,{/i} (2 Chron. 31:11)
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Neh. 10:37• 37{i}and that we should bring the firstfruits 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.{/i} (Neh. 10:37)
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Neh. 12:44• 44{i}And at that time men were appointed over the chambers of the treasures for the heave-offerings, for the firstfruits, 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.{/i} (Neh. 12:44)
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Neh. 13:5‑9• 5And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests.
 6But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon, came I unto the king, and after certain days obtained I leave of the king.
 7And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.
 8And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber,
 9Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meat offering and the frankincense. (Neh. 13:5‑9)
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Song of Sol. 1:4• 4Draw me: we will run after thee{HR}(The king hath brought me into his chamber);{HR}We will be glad and rejoice in thee;{HR}We will make mention of thy love more than of wine.{HR}Upright ones love thee. (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, a 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 door. (Jer. 35:4)
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Ezek. 40:44• 44{i}And 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.{/i} (Ezek. 40:44)
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Ezek. 41:5‑11• 5After this he measured the wall of the house, six cubits, and the breadth of a side-chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.
 6And the side-chambers [were], one over another, three and thirty times; and they entered into the wall which [was] on the house, for the side-chambers round about, that they might be fastened on, but they were not fastened on the wall of the house.
 7And as one wound upward it became continually wider for the side-chamber, for the row of chambers went more and more upward round about the house; therefore the breadth of the house [was] greater upward; and so they went up, the lowest to the highest, by the middle.
 8And I saw the height of the house round about; the foundations of the side-chambers a full reed of six great cubits.
 9The thickness of the wall which [was] for the side-chamber without [was] five cubits and that which was left, the place of the side-chamber, belonging to the house.
 10And between the chambers is a breadth of twenty cubits about the house all round.
 11And the doors of the side-chambers [were] toward the place left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south; and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about. (Ezek. 41:5‑11)
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Ezek. 42:3‑12• 3Opposite the twenty [cubits] which [were] for the inner court, and opposite the pavement, which [was] for the outer court, [was] gallery against gallery, in three [stories].
 4And before the cells [was] a walk of ten cubits in breadth inward, a way of one cubit, and their doors [were] toward the north.
 5And the upper chambers [were] shorter, for the galleries contained more than these, than the lower and the middle one, of the building.
 6For they [were] in three [stories], but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore it was contracted from the lower and the middle ones from the ground.
 7And the wall which [was] without, opposite the cells, by the way of the outer court before the cells—its length [was] fifty cubits.
 8For the length of the cells which [belonged] to the outer court [was] fifty cubits; and, behold, before the temple [were] a hundred cubits.
 9And below these cells [was] the entrance from the east, in one's going into them from the outer court.
 10In the breadth of the wall of the court eastward, before the separate place, and before the building [were] cells.
 11And the way before them [was] as the appearance of the cells which [were] northward, as long and broad as they; and all their outlets according to their fashions and according to their doors.
 12And according to the doors of the cells which [were] toward the south, a door at the head of the way, the way directly before the wall eastward, when 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• 16{i}And 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.{/i}
 19{i}And he prepared the oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.{/i}
 20{i}And 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—{/i}
 21{i}and Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold, and shut off the oracle in front with chains of gold, and overlaid it with gold.{/i}
 31{i}And 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.{/i} (1 Kings 6:16,19‑21,31)
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Ex. 25:22• 22{i}And 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.{/i} (Ex. 25:22)
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Lev. 16:2• 2and Jehovah said to Moses, Speak to Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the sanctuary within 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• 89{i}And 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.{/i} (Num. 7:89)
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2 Chron. 4:20• 20{i}and the candlesticks with their lamps to burn according to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold;{/i} (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 unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy [place, even] under the wings of the cherubim:
 9And they drew out the staves [of the ark], that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle: but they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day. (2 Chron. 5:7,9)
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Psa. 28:2• 2Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry for help, unto thee,{HR}When I lift up my hands towards thy holy oracle. (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.

W. Kelly Translation

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

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)