International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
CHAPELchap'-el (miqdash, "a holy place"; the Revised Version (British and American) SANCTUARY, which see): "It is the king's chapel" (Amos 7:13 the King James Version), an expression indicative of the dependence of this sanctuary on the court.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A holy place or sanctuary, occurs only in
Amos 7:13, where one of the idol priests calls Bethel "the king's chapel."
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) A subordinate place of worship
2. (n.) a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial
3. (n.) a small building attached to a church
4. (n.) a room or recess in a church, containing an altar.
5. (n.) A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.
6. (n.) In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.
7. (n.) A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
8. (n.) A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
9. (n.) An association of workmen in a printing office.
10. (v. t.) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
11. (v. t.) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.
Strong's Hebrew
4720. miqdash -- a sacred place, sanctuary... part (1), sanctuaries (5), sanctuary (65).
chapel, hallowed part, holy place,
sanctuary. Or miqqdash (Exod. 15:17) {mik-ked-awsh'}; from
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