TBESH · H1002
בִּירָה · bi.rah · palace
1) palace, castle 2) temple Aramaic equivalent: bi.ra (בִּירְתָא "citadel" H1001)
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bi.rah H1002
בִּירָה (bi.rah) means “palace” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
בִּירָה Hebrew · H1002 16 tagged occurrences in 16 verses
Pronunciation guide: bee-raw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
of foreign origin; a castle or palace
KJV glosses: palace.
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How translators render H1002
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| in the citadel | 9 |
| the citadel | 2 |
| at the citadel | 1 |
| of the citadel | 1 |
| of the fortress | 1 |
| this palace | 1 |
| your palace | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the palace | 13 |
| of the palace | 2 |
| for the palace | 1 |
Verses containing H1002
Page 1 of 1. 16 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- 1 Chronicles 29:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 29:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And give my son Solomon a whole heart to keep and carry out all Your commandments, decrees, and statutes, and to build Your palace for which I have made provision.”
Read word by word - Nehemiah 1:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
These are the words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah: In the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa,
Read word by word - Nehemiah 2:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the king’s forest, so that he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel to the temple, for the city wall, and for the house I will occupy.” And because the gracious hand of my God was upon me, the king granted my requests.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 7:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then I put my brother Hanani in charge of Jerusalem, along with Hananiah the commander of the fortress, because he was a faithful man who feared God more than most.
Read word by word - Esther 1:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In those days King Xerxes sat on his royal throne in the citadel of Susa.
Read word by word - Esther 1:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
At the end of this time, in the garden court of the royal palace, the king held a seven-day feast for all the people in the citadel of Susa, from the least to the greatest.
Read word by word - Esther 2:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and let the king appoint commissioners in each province of his kingdom to assemble all the beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch in charge of the women, and let them be given beauty treatments.
Read word by word - Esther 2:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Esther 2:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When the king’s command and edict had been proclaimed, many young women gathered at the citadel of Susa under the care of Hegai. Esther was also taken to the palace and placed under the care of Hegai, the custodian of the women.
Read word by word - Esther 3:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The couriers left, spurred on by the king’s command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. Then the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was in confusion.
Read word by word - Esther 8:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Esther 9:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men,
Read word by word - Esther 9:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
On that day the number of those killed in the citadel of Susa was reported to the king,
Read word by word - Esther 9:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
Read word by word - Daniel 8:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And in the vision I saw myself in the citadel of Susa, in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision that I was beside the Ulai Canal.
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