דְּבִיר
Dᵉbîyr · deb-eer'
Debir, the name of an Amoritish king and of two places in Palestine
Lexicon
Derivation: or (shortened) דְּבִר; (Joshua 13:26 (but see H3810 (לֹא דְבַר))), the same as H1687 (דְּבִיר);
Debir, the name of an Amoritish king and of two places in Palestine
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Debir.
Letters
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › the house, what is within › the hand that works › the head, the highest
The doorway, the way in of the house, what is within of the hand that works of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דְּבִיר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
14 occurrences · 14 OT · 0 NT · 13 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of debir6 · 43%
- and unto debir1 · 7%
- with him, to debir1 · 7%
- to debir1 · 7%
- from debir1 · 7%
- toward debir1 · 7%
- which is debir1 · 7%
- and debir1 · 7%
- debir1 · 7%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.