H1002 - בִּירָה (bîyrâh)

H1002 בִּירָה (bîyrâh) bee-raw'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

palace

Strong's Definition

a castle or palace

Derivation: of foreign origin;

KJV Usage: palace.

TWOT Reference: 240

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) palace, castle

2) temple

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G3390 G3619 G3624 G4172

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) palace, castle 2) temple Aramaic equivalent: bi.ra (בִּירְתָא "citadel" H1001)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

בִּירָה bý̂yrâh BDB Definition: 1) palace, castle 2) temple Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: of foreign origin Same Word by TWOT Number: 240 Total KJV Occurrences: 17

Bible Occurrences (16)

29:1 29:19

1:1 2:8 7:2

1:2 1:5 2:3 2:5 2:8 3:15 8:14 9:6 9:11 9:12

8:2

1 Chronicles 29:1

Then King David said to the whole assembly, My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is young and inexperienced. The task is great because this palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.

1 Chronicles 29:19

And give my son Solomon a whole heart to keep and carry out all Your commandments, decrees, and statutes, and to build [Your] palace for which I have made provision.

Nehemiah 1:1

[These are] the words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah: In the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa,

Nehemiah 2:8

And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the king’s... forest, so that he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel to the temple, for the city wall, and for the house I will occupy.... And because the gracious hand of my God was upon me, the king granted my requests.

Nehemiah 7:2

Then I put my brother Hanani in charge of Jerusalem, along with Hananiah the commander of the fortress, because he was a faithful man who feared God more than most.

Esther 1:2

In those days King Xerxes sat on his royal throne in the citadel of Susa.

Esther 1:5

At the end of this time, in the garden court of the royal palace, the king held a seven-day... feast for all the people in the citadel of Susa, from the least to the greatest.

Esther 2:3

and let the king appoint commissioners in each province of his kingdom to assemble all the beautiful... young women into the harem... at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch in charge of the women, and let [them] be given beauty treatments.