הֵיכָל hêykâl
Meaning
a large public building, such as a palace or temple
In the King James Version: palace, temple.
Derivation: probably from H3201 (יָכֹל) (in the sense of capacity);
Where it is used
- Hosea 8:14 Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.
- Joel 3:5 For you took My silver and gold and carried off My finest treasures to your temples.
- Amos 8:3 “In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”
- Jonah 2:4 At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’
- Jonah 2:7 As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.
- Micah 1:2 Hear, O peoples, all of you; listen, O earth, and everyone in it! May the Lord GOD bear witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.
- Nahum 2:6 The river gates are thrown open and the palace collapses.
- Habakkuk 2:20 But the LORD is in His holy temple; let all the earth be silent before Him.
- Haggai 2:15 Now consider carefully from this day forward: Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,
- Haggai 2:18 Consider carefully from this day forward—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid—consider carefully:
- Zechariah 6:12 And you are to tell him that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Here is a man whose name is the Branch, and He will branch out from His place and build the temple of the LORD.
- Zechariah 6:13 Yes, He will build the temple of the LORD; He will be clothed in splendor and will sit on His throne and rule. And He will be a priest on His throne, and there will be peaceful counsel between the two.’
- Zechariah 6:14 The crown will reside in the temple of the LORD as a memorial to Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and the gracious son of Zephaniah.
- Zechariah 6:15 Even those far away will come and build the temple of the LORD, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you. This will happen if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.”
- Zechariah 8:9 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Let your hands be strong, you who now hear these words spoken by the prophets who were present when the foundations were laid to rebuild the temple, the house of the LORD of Hosts.
- Malachi 3:1 “Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple—the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight—see, He is coming,” says the LORD of Hosts.