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Lexicon :: Strong's H4720 - miqdāš

Aa
מִקְדָּשׁ
Transliteration
miqdāš
Pronunciation
mik-dawsh'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1990f

Strong’s Definitions

מִקְדָּשׁ miqdâsh, mik-dawsh'; or מִקְּדָשׁ miqqᵉdâsh; (Exodus 15:17), from H6942; a consecrated thing or place, especially, a palace, sanctuary (whether of Jehovah or of idols) or asylum:—chapel, hallowed part, holy place, sanctuary.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 74x

The KJV translates Strong's H4720 in the following manner: sanctuary (69x), holy place (3x), chapel (1x), hallowed part (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 74x
The KJV translates Strong's H4720 in the following manner: sanctuary (69x), holy place (3x), chapel (1x), hallowed part (1x).

  1. sacred place, sanctuary, holy place

    1. sanctuary

      1. of the temple

      2. of the tabernacle

      3. of Ezekiel's temple

      4. of Jehovah

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מִקְדָּשׁ miqdâsh, mik-dawsh'; or מִקְּדָשׁ miqqᵉdâsh; (Exodus 15:17), from H6942; a consecrated thing or place, especially, a palace, sanctuary (whether of Jehovah or of idols) or asylum:—chapel, hallowed part, holy place, sanctuary.
STRONGS H4720: Abbreviations
מִקְדָּשׁ noun masculineAmos 7:9 sacred place, sanctuary; — מ׳ Exodus 25:8 +; מִקְּדָשׁ Exodus 15:17 (Ges§ 20h Köii. 1, 471); construct מִקְדַּשׁ Leviticus 16:33 +; suffix מִקְדָּשִׁי Leviticus 20:3 +, etc., מִקְדְּשׁוֺ Numbers 18:29 (Köii. 1, 97); plural מִקְדָּשִׁים Ezekiel 21:7, construct מִקְדְּשֵׁי Jeremiah 51:51 + 2 times; suffix מִקְדָּשַׁי Leviticus 21:23; מְקַדְשֵׁיהֶם Ezekiel 7:24 (on anomalous pointing see Ew§ 215 a Hi-Sm; but probably
Pi. Participle was in mind, Ges§ 93oo Anm.; < read מִקְדְּשֵׁיהֶם); etc.; —
1. old Israel sanctuaries: of י׳ at Shechem Joshua 24:26 (E); probably also Exodus 15:17 (i.e. Shiloh); plural of sanct. to be destroyed by י׳ Leviticus 26:31 (H); מִקְדְּשֵׁי יִשׂ׳ in Northern Israel Amos 7:9; מִקְדַּשׁמֶֿלֶךְ Amos 7:13 (Bethel).
2. of the nations: Moab Isaiah 16:12 plural of Tyre Ezekiel 28:18 (Co Toy [not Berthol Krae] read קָדְשְׁךָ thy sanctity).
3. tabernacle and its precincts Exodus 25:8 (P) +; מִקְדַּשׁ הַקֹּדֶשׁ Leviticus 16:33, plural Leviticus 21:23.
4. temple and precincts 1 Chronicles 22:19; Isaiah 63:18; Psalm 74:7 +; בֵּית מִקְדָּשָׁם 2 Chronicles 36:17, מקדשׁ הבית Ezekiel 48:21, מְכוֺן מ׳ Daniel 8:11; plural of many sacred places in and about the temple. מִקְדְּשֵׁי בית י׳ Jeremiah 51:51; מִקְדְּשֵׁי אֵל Psalm 73:17. Doubtful are: מִמִּקְדָּשֶׁיךָ Psalm 68:36 [Psalm 68:35] (Greek Version of the LXX ἐν τοῖς ὁσίοις αὐτοῦ Vulgate de sanctuario; SS מִקְדָּשֶׁ֑ךָ); מִקְדָּשִׁים Ezekiel 21:7 (Greek Version of the LXX Co Berthol Buhl מִקְדָּשָׁם; Toy Krae מִקְדָּשֶׁיהָ; || יְרוּשָׁלַםִ); וּמִקְדָּשׁ לַמִּקְדָּשׁ Ezekiel 45:4b (Co, after Greek Version of the LXX, מִפְקָד לְקָדְשָׁם [לְבָֽתֵּי]; Toy וּלְמִגְרָשִׁים [לְבָֽתִּים], compare Krae לְמִגְרָשׁ).
5. י׳ will become לְמ׳ for his people Ezekiel 11:16 (BrMP 268), so apparently Isaiah 8:14 (but gloss Du CheHpt Marti; LagSemitic i. 16 מִקָּשׁ i.e. stumbling-block [he compare Syriac bdb087402 strike]).
6. of י׳'s future sanct., בתוכם לעולם מ׳ Ezekiel 37:26, 28. — (מִמֶּנּוּ) אֶתקּמִקְדְּשׁוֺ (מִכָּלחֶֿלְבּוֺ) Numbers 18:29 even the hallowed part there of AV RV, but this not the meaning of מ׳; Ew§ 255 c assumes מַקְךֵּשׁ* in this sense; < read קָדְשׁוֺ (see קֹדֶשׁ 3d), מִ being dittograph.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

15:17; 15:17; 25:8; 25:8

Leviticus

16:33; 16:33; 20:3; 21:23; 21:23; 26:31

Numbers

18:29; 18:29

Joshua

24:26

1 Chronicles

22:19

2 Chronicles

36:17

Psalms

68:35; 73:17; 74:7

Isaiah

8:14; 16:12; 63:18

Jeremiah

51:51; 51:51

Ezekiel

7:24; 11:16; 21:7; 21:7; 28:18; 37:26; 37:28; 45:4; 48:21

Daniel

8:11

Amos

7:9; 7:9; 7:13

H4720

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Strong's Number H4720 matches the Hebrew מִקְדָּשׁ (miqdāš),
which occurs 74 times in 71 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Exo 15:17–Eze 37:28)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:17 - You will take them in, planting them in the mountain of your heritage, the place, O Lord, where you have made your house, the holy place, O Lord, the building of your hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:8 - And let them make me a holy place, so that I may be ever present among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:4 - And she will be unclean for thirty-three days till the flow of her blood is stopped; no holy thing may be touched by her, and she may not come into the holy place, till the days for making her clean are ended.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:33 - And he will make the holy place and the Tent of meeting and the altar free from sin; he will take away sin from the priests and from all the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:30 - Keep my Sabbaths and have respect for my holy place: I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:3 - And my face will be turned against that man, and he will be cut off from his people; because he has given his offspring to Molech, making my holy place unclean, and making my holy name common.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:12 - He may not go out of the holy place or make the holy place of his God common; for the crown of the holy oil of his God is on him: I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:23 - But he may not go inside the veil or come near the altar, because he is damaged; and he may not make my holy places common; for I the Lord have made them holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:2 - Keep my Sabbaths and give honour to my holy place: I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:31 - And I will make your towns waste and send destruction on your holy places; I will take no pleasure in the smell of your sweet perfumes;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:38 - And those whose tents are to be placed on the east side of the House in front of the Tent of meeting, looking to the dawn, are Moses and Aaron and his sons, who will do the work of the holy place for the children of Israel; and any strange person who comes near will be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:21 - Then the Kohathites went forward with the holy place; the others put up the House ready for their coming.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:1 - And the Lord said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father's family are to be responsible for all wrongdoing in relation to the holy place: and you and your sons are to be responsible for the errors which come about in your work as priests.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:29 - From everything given to you, let the best of it, the holy part of it, be offered as a lifted offering to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:20 - But the man who, being unclean, does not make himself clean in this way, will be cut off from the meeting of the people, because he has made the holy place of the Lord unclean: the water has not been put on him, he is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:26 - And Joshua put these words on record, writing them in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and put it up there under the oak-tree which was in the holy place of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:19 - Now give your heart and soul to the worship of the Lord your God; and get to work on the building of the holy place of the Lord God, so that you may put the ark of the Lord's agreement and the holy vessels of God in the house which is to be made for the name of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:10 - Now then, take note; for the Lord has made selection of you to be the builder of a house for the holy place. Be strong and do it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:8 - And they made it their living-place, building there a holy house for your name, and saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:18 - And they made protests to Uzziah the king, and said to him, The burning of perfumes, Uzziah, is not your business but that of the priests, the sons of Aaron, who have been made holy for this work: go out of the holy place, for you have done wrong, and it will not be to your honour before God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:21 - And they took with them seven oxen and seven male sheep and seven lambs and seven he-goats as a sin-offering for the kingdom and for the holy house and for Judah. And he gave orders to the sons of Aaron, the priests, that these were to be offered on the altar of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:8 - Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:17 - So he sent against them the king of the Chaldaeans, who put their young men to death with the sword in the house of their holy place, and had no pity for any, young man or virgin, old man or white-haired: God gave them all into his hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:39 - For the children of Israel and the children of Levi are to take the lifted offering of the grain and wine and oil into the rooms where the vessels of the holy place are, together with the priests and the door-keepers and the makers of music: and we will not give up caring for the house of our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:35

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:35 - O God, you are to be feared in your holy place: the God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:17 - Till I went into God's holy place, and saw the end of the evil-doers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:7 - They have put on fire your holy place; they have made the place of your name unclean, pulling it down to the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:69

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:69 - And he made his holy place like the high heaven, like the earth which is fixed by him for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 96:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 96:6 - Honour and glory are before him: strong and fair is his holy place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:14 - And he will be for a holy place: but for a stone of falling and a rock of trouble to the two houses of Israel, and to the men of Jerusalem, for a net in which they may be taken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:12 - And when Moab goes up to the high place, and makes prayer in the house of his god, it will have no effect.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:13 - The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the cypress, the plane, and the sherbin-tree together, to make my holy place beautiful; and the resting-place of my feet will be full of glory.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:18 - Why have evil men gone over your holy place, so that it has been crushed under the feet of our haters?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:12 - A seat of glory, placed on high from the first, is our holy place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:51

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:51 - We are shamed because bitter words have come to our ears; our faces are covered with shame: for men from strange lands have come into the holy places of the Lord's house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:10 - The hand of her hater is stretched out over all her desired things; for she has seen that the nations have come into her holy place, about whom you gave orders that they were not to come into the meeting of your people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:7 - The Lord has given up his altar and has been turned in hate from his holy place; he has given up into the hands of the attacker the walls of her great houses: their voices have been loud in the house of the Lord as in the day of a holy meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:20 - Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:11 - For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have made my holy place unclean with all your hated things and all your disgusting ways, you will become disgusting to me; my eye will have no mercy and I will have no pity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:6 - And he said to me, Son of man, do you see what they are doing? even the very disgusting things which the children of Israel are doing here, causing me to go far away from my holy place? but you will see other most disgusting things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:6 - Give up to destruction old men and young men and virgins, little children and women: but do not come near any man who has the mark on him: and make a start at my holy place. So they made a start with the old men who were before the house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:16 - For this reason say, This is what the Lord has said: Though I have had them moved far off among the nations, and though I have sent them wandering among the countries, still I have been a safe place for them for a little time in the countries where they have come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:2 - Son of man, let your face be turned to Jerusalem, let your words be dropped in the direction of her holy place, and be a prophet against the land of Israel;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:38

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:38 - Further, this is what she has done to me: she has made my holy place unclean and has made my Sabbaths unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:39

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:39 - For when she had made an offering of her children to her images, she came into my holy place to make it unclean; see, this is what she has done inside my house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:21 - Say to the people of Israel, The Lord has said, See, I will make my holy place unclean, the pride of your strength, the pleasure of your eyes, and the desire of your soul; and your sons and daughters, who did not come with you here, will be put to the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:3 - And say to the children of Ammon, Give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said: Because you said, Aha! against my holy place when it was made unclean, and against the land of Israel when it was made waste, and against the people of Judah when they were taken away as prisoners;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:18 - By all your sin, even by your evil trading, you have made your holy places unclean; so I will make a fire come out from you, it will make a meal of you, and I will make you as dust on the earth before the eyes of all who see you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:26 - And I will make an agreement of peace with them: it will be an eternal agreement with them: and I will have mercy on them and make their numbers great, and will put my holy place among them for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:28 - And the nations will be certain that I who make Israel holy am the Lord, when my holy place is among them for ever.

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