Word

דְּבִיר

Dᵉbîyr · H1688 · Hebrew · proper noun · 13 occurrences

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This name belongs to 3 places

Debirfirst named in Joshua 10:389 verses
Debirfirst named in Joshua 15:71 verse
Debirfirst named in Joshua 13:261 verse

Person

Debirfirst named in Joshua 10:31 verse

Meanings

Debir

A man who was king of Eglon in the time of Joshua

Examples
Joshua 10:3 Therefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent word to Hoham king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,
Debir

A town in the hill country of the territory of Judah, formerly called Kiriath-sepher and also known as Kiriath-sannah, assigned to the clan of Aaron in the tribe of Levi

Examples
Joshua 10:38 Then Joshua and all Israel with him returned to Debir, and they fought against it.
Joshua 10:39 He captured it and its king and all its cities, and they struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed every person who was in it. He left no survivor. Just as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king, as he had also done to Libnah and its king.
Joshua 11:21 Then Joshua came at that time and eliminated the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, Debir, Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah and all the hill country of Israel. Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

מֶלֶךְking 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

הוּאhe, she, it 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 3 groups

אֵלto, toward 1
מִןfrom 1
לto/for 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

5 occurrences in 3 groups

יָשַׁבto dwell, to live, to sit 2
שֵׁםname 2
מֶלֶךְking 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 3 entries

Buildings001003002001: This code is inherited from the shared listing with the related noun for the temple's inner sanctuary (דְּבִיר (dᵉbîyr, H1687)) rather than an independent feature of the place/person name Debir's own sense.
Names of People003001007: דְּבִר also names Debir, a Canaanite king, as at Joshua 10:3 — "Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent word to Hoham king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon."
Names of Locations003001010: The same word names the city Debir, as at Joshua 10:38 — "Joshua and all Israel with him returned to Debir, and they fought against it" — and Joshua 15:15, which notes "the name of Debir previously was Kiriath-sepher."

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1688. Debir II. דְּבִיר 1. proper name, masculine king of Eglon Jos 10:3. 2. proper…

H1688. Debir
II. דְּבִיר 1. proper name, masculine king of Eglon Jos 10:3.
2. proper name, of a location a. דְּבִ֫רָה with ָ ה locative, northern border Judah Jos 15:7 (westward Hup Psa 28:2).
b. לִדְבִר town of the Gadites Jos 13:26, perhaps Lôdebâr 2Sa 9:4 see דְבָר לֹא Di MV.
c. דְּבִיר Jdg 1:11 (twice in verse); 1Ch 6:43, דְּבִרָה Jos 10:38-39, elsewhere דְּבִר Jos 15:15 +, a royal city of Canaanites anciently called סֵפֶר קִרְיַת Jos 15:15; Jdg 1:11, סַנָּה קִרְיַת Jos 15:49; on the mountains of Judah, in region of Hebron Jos 11:21; Jos 15:49, assigned to the Aaronite priests Jos 21:15 as a city of refuge 1Ch 6:43; modern Dhoherîye, 5 hours southwest from Hebron, according to Kn, so Surveyiii. 402; other conjectures in Di Jos 10:39 RiHWB 265.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of Locations0 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0