Thing

Holy of Holies, Most Holy Place

Human-made Things in the Bible

The Holy of Holies was a cubical room at the west end of the Tabernacle proper and the Temple. In the Tabernacle it measured 10 cubits (5 meters; 16.5 feet) in each direction; in the Temple the dimensions were doubled.

In the Bible

The Hebrew and Greek words for it, and every verse where each is used

בַּיִת, כַּפֹּרֶת beyth hakaporeth · 1 verse
דְּבִיר dvir · 27 verses
מִקְדָּשׁ miqdash · 2 verses
פְּנִימָה, פְּנִימִי pnimah, pnimi · 2 verses
קֹדֶשׁ qodesh · 8 verses
קֹדֶשׁ qodesh haqodashim · 11 verses
ἅγιος hagia · 5 verses
ἅγιος hagia hagiōn · 1 verse
ναός naos · 2 verses
οἶκος, καταπέτασμα oikos katapetasmatos · 1 verse
σκηνή skēnē · 1 verse

Also in Tabernacle

Sources

Plants and Trees in the Bible, Animals in the Bible and Human-made Things in the Bible © United Bible Societies, 2025 (adapted from Each According to its Kind: Plants and Trees in the Bible by Robert Koops, All Creatures Great and Small: Living Things in the Bible by Edward R. Hope, and The Works of Their Hands: Man-made Things in the Bible by Ray Pritz), CC BY-SA 4.0; adapted for eRhema