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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.

  • Hosea 8:14
    For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
  • Joel 3:5
    Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
  • Amos 8:3
    And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
  • Jonah 2:4
    Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
  • Jonah 2:7
    When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
  • Micah 1:2
    Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
  • Nahum 2:6
    The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
  • Habakkuk 2:20
    But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
  • Haggai 2:15
    And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
  • Haggai 2:18
    Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider it.