מִקְדָּשׁ miqdash

Hebrew word for “sanctuary” · Strong’s H4720 · used 75 times in 72 verses

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Meaning

1) sacred place, sanctuary, holy place; 1a) sanctuary; 1a1) of the temple; 1a2) of the tabernacle; 1a3) of Ezekiel's temple; 1a4) of Jehovah

How it is translated

Glosses given for miqdash in context, with how often each is used:

• sanctuary 65
• sanctuaries 7
• sacred part 1
• holy places 1
• holy place 1

Where it is used

Also in 2 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 44 (8), Ezekiel 45 (3), Ezekiel 48 (3), Leviticus 21 (2), Leviticus 26 (2), Numbers 18 (2), Lamentations 2 (2), Ezekiel 23 (2), Ezekiel 37 (2), Amos 7 (2)

Forms

• המקדשׁ 16
• מקדשׁי 16
• מקדשׁ 9
• מקדשׁו 5
• למקדשׁ 5
• ומקדשׁי 3
• מקדשׁך 3
• במקדשׁי 3
• במקדשׁ 2
• ומקדשׁ 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with miqdash more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• חָלַל chalal “to profane/begin” 13
• אֲדֹנָי adonai “Lord” 11
• קֹדֶשׁ qodesh “holiness” 10
• תָּוֶךְ tavekh “midst” 10
• יְהֹוִה yehovih “YHWH/God” 7
• תְּרוּמָה terumah “contribution” 5
• כֹּהֵן kohen “priest” 8
• שָׁרַת sharat “to minister” 5
• אֲנִי ani “I” 8
• כֹּה koh “thus” 7
• מִן־ min “from” 8
• שָׁמַר shamar “to keep” 6

Key verses

The verses using miqdash that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Leviticus 26:31 — And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
• 2 Chronicles 30:8 — Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve…
• 2 Chronicles 36:17 — Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon…
• Isaiah 8:14 — And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the…
• Lamentations 1:10 — The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command…
• Lamentations 2:7 — The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise…
• Lamentations 2:20 — Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be…
• Ezekiel 5:11 — Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations,…
• Ezekiel 24:21 — Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and…
• Ezekiel 37:26 — Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my…
• Ezekiel 44:7 — In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house,…
• Ezekiel 44:15 — But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.