Strong's Definition
of foreign origin; a castle or palace
KJV Usage: palace
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
בִּירָה (bi.rah) — palace. 1) palace, castle 2) temple Aramaic equivalent: bi.ra (בִּירְתָא "citadel" H1001)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun f
Buildings
fortress, citadel = a fortress that commands a city and is used in the control of the inhabitants and in defense during attack or siege.
2CH 17:12 · 2CH 27:4 · EZR 6:2 · NEH 1:1 · NEH 7:2 · EST 1:2 · EST 1:5 · EST 2:3 · EST 2:5 · EST 2:8 · EST 3:15 · EST 8:14 · EST 9:6 · EST 9:11 · EST 9:12 · DAN 8:2
1 1CH 29:1 · 1CH 29:19 · NEH 2:8 The meaning of בִּירָה here is disputed. Since it is a building or a series of buildings לַיהוָה אֶלֹהִים the referent must be the temple or the temple area. RSV "palace" NIV "palatial structure" | NRSV NJPS CEV GNT "temple". NRSV has "temple" in the text and a note "Heb. fortress". Klein has "temple" | Braun "palace" (but with the sense of "temple", cf. note). Knoppers 944 has "citadel" and explains: "there is reason to believe that bîrâ refers here to a complex of buildings, including the Temple (J. Schwartz 1996: 29–49), rather than to a single structure".
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
בִּירָה n.f. castle, palace of temple at Jerusalem
in these passages appar. means a fortress in the city bearing the same name
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