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Strong's numbers

הֵיכָל (H1964)

hêykâl

hay-kawl'

probably from יָכֹל (in the sense of capacity); a large public building, such as a palace or temple; palace, temple.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

הֵיכָל n.m. palace, temple
1 rather seld. (royal) palace
2 of palace of God considered as king, = house of God or of י׳, temple

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


76 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • 1 Samuel 1:9
    So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD.
  • 1 Samuel 3:3
    And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;
  • 2 Samuel 22:7
    In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
  • 1 Kings 6:3
    And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.
  • 1 Kings 6:5
    And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
  • 1 Kings 6:17
    And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
  • 1 Kings 6:33
    So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.
  • 1 Kings 7:21
    And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
  • 1 Kings 7:50
    And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.
  • 1 Kings 21:1
    And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.