HebrewH1688Noun

דְּבִיר

de.vir

11Occurrences
H1688Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Debir, the name of an Amoritish king and of two places in Palestine

or (shortened) דְּבִר; (Joshua 13:26 (but see H3810 (לֹא דְבַר))), the same as H1687 (דְּבִיר);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Debir = "sanctuary" a town in the mountains of Judah west of Hebron and given to the priests and a city of refuge Also named: qir.yat san.nah (*קִרְיַת־סֵ֫פֶר *"Kiriath-sannah" H7158)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

דְּבִיר appears 11 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Joshua
10
Judges
1

Key Passages

Judges 1:11BSB

From there they marched against the inhabitants of Debir (formerly known as Kiriath-sepher).

Joshua 10:38BSB

Finally Joshua and all Israel with him turned toward Debir and fought against it.

Joshua 11:21BSB

At that time Joshua proceeded to eliminate the Anakim from the hill country of Hebron, Debir, and Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah and of Israel. Joshua devoted them to destruction, along with their cities.

Joshua 13:26BSB

the territory from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;

Joshua 15:15BSB

From there he marched against the inhabitants of Debir (formerly known as Kiriath-sepher).

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