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HebrewH1002Noun (Feminine)

בִּירָה

bi.rah

16Occurrences
H1002Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a castle or palace

of foreign origin;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
  1. palace, castle 2) temple Aramaic equivalent: bi.ra (*בִּירְתָא *"citadel" H1001)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

H:N-F

Full Description

H:N-F

Occurrences

בִּירָה appears 16 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Esther
10
Nehemiah
3
1 Chronicles
2
Daniel
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 29:1BSB

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.

Esther 1:2BSB

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

Esther 2:5BSB

Now there was at the citadel of Susa a Jewish man from the tribe of Benjamin named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish.

Esther 8:14BSB

The couriers rode out in haste on their royal horses, pressed on by the command of the king. And the edict was also issued in the citadel of Susa.

Esther 9:12BSB

who said to Queen Esther, “In the citadel of Susa the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men, including Haman’s ten sons. What have they done in the rest of the royal provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given to you. And what further do you request? It will be fulfilled.”

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.