Lexical Summary birah: a castle, palace Original Word: בִּירָהTransliteration: birah Phonetic Spelling: (bee-raw') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: a castle, palace Meaning: a castle, palace Strong's Concordance palace Of foreign origin; a castle or palace -- palace. Brown-Driver-Briggs H1002. birah בִּירָה noun feminine castle, palace (late & probably loan-word; compare As bîrtu, fortress DlHA 22; Persian bâru = Sanskrit bura, bari, see Ry Nehemiah 2:8) — 1 of temple at Jerusalem 1 Chronicles 29:1, 19 הַבִּירָה; of for-tress near temple Nehemiah 2:8; 7:2 (compare βᾶρις ᵐ5L 1:1; 2:8; 7:2 — B ἁβιρά, βειρά — and later βᾶρις JosAnt.xiv.11,4). 2 הַבִּירָה בְּשׁוּשַׁן Nehemiah 1:1; Esther 1:2, 5; 2:3, 5, 8; 3:15; 8:14; 9:6, 11, 12; Daniel 8:2; in these passages it apparently means a fortress in the city bearing the same name (compare especially Esther 3:15; 8:14-15, 9:6, 12, 15, 18). |
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