HebrewH4720Noun (Masculine)

מִקְדָּשׁ

miq.dash

69Occurrences
H4720Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a consecrated thing or place, especially, a palace, sanctuary (whether of Jehovah or of idols) or asylum

or מִקְּדָשׁ; (Exodus 15:17), from H6942 (קָדַשׁ);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
  1. sacred place, sanctuary, holy place 1a) sanctuary 1a1) of the temple 1a2) of the tabernacle 1a3) of Ezekiel's temple 1a4) of Jehovah

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

מִקְדָּשׁ appears 69 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Ezk
28
Leviticus
8
2 Chronicles
5
Numbers
5
Isaiah
4
Psalms
4
Daniel
3
Lamentations
3

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 22:19BSB

Now set your heart and soul to seek the LORD your God. Get started building the sanctuary of the LORD God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD and the holy articles of God into the temple that will be built for the Name of the LORD.”

Exodus 25:8BSB

And they are to make a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.

Ezk 44:8BSB

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Ezk 7:24BSB

Verse text unavailable

Leviticus 12:4BSB

The woman shall continue in purification from her bleeding for thirty-three days. She must not touch anything sacred or go into the sanctuary until the days of her purification are complete.

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