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Parbar

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(suburb). A spot between the west wall of temple at Jerusalem and the city beyond (1 Chron. 26:18¹⁸At Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar. (1 Chronicles 26:18)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

Some place connected with the temple, at which two doorkeepers were placed: its meaning or situation is not known (1 Chron. 26:18¹⁸At Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar. (1 Chronicles 26:18); RV margin “the Precinct”). Gesenius identifies it with parvar, “suburbs” (2 Kings 23:11¹¹And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire. (2 Kings 23:11); “precincts” (RV).

Jackson’s Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names:

he annulled the corn