What does "Palace" mean in the Bible?
In the O.T. the word is used both in a wider sense, denoting the whole mass of buildings, courts, and gardens belonging to a royal residence and enclosed by the exterior wall, Dan 1:4; Lev 4:4, and in a narrower sense, denoting some special part of the whole construction; for instance, the fortress or citadel. Palace appears in 62 verses across 10 books of the Bible.
What does the Bible say about Palace?
PAL'ACE. In the O.T. the word is used both in a wider sense, denoting the whole mass of buildings, courts, and gardens belonging to a royal residence and enclosed by the exterior wall, Dan 1:4; Lev 4:4, and in a narrower sense, denoting some special part of the whole construction; for instance, the fortress or citadel. 1 Kgs 16:18; 2 Kgs 15:25. In the N.T. the word generally signifies the residence of any man of wealth or prominent social position. Matt 26:3; Luke 11:21; John 18:15. The "palace" of Phil 1:13 is the barrack of the Praetorian camp attached to the emperor's palace in Rome, on the Palatine. The emperor was "praetor" or commander-in-chief; so the barrack of his bodyguard was the praetorium. The Roman governors occupied Herod's palace in Jerusalem. The most interesting building of this kind mentioned in the O.T. is the palace erected by Solomon. 1 Kgs 7:1-12. It occupied an area of about 150,000 square feet, consisted of several independent structures - the house of the forest of Lebanon, the hall of judgment, the porch, etc. - and took thirteen years to build. Besides the description given of this building in First Kings, there is another by Josephus, but they remained almost unintelligible as long as the principles of Greek or Egyptian architecture were applied to them, while the investigations of the ruins of the palaces Ground-plan of Solomon's Palace. in Nineveh and Persepolis have thrown much light on the subject.
Definition text: Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible · 1898. Public domain.
Compiled by Protos: the verse list on this page. Where one name belongs to more than one person or place, each of them gets a separate entry.
What is the Hebrew word for Palace?
Where does Palace appear in the Bible?
Palace is referenced in 62 verses across 10 books. Every passage below is about this one, not just every verse the word turns up in.
- 1 Kings 7:1
- 1 Kings 9:1
- 1 Kings 9:10
- 1 Kings 10:4
- 1 Kings 10:12
- 1 Kings 14:26
- 1 Kings 14:27
- 1 Kings 16:18
- 1 Kings 18:3
- 1 Kings 20:6
- 2 Chronicles 2:1
- 2 Chronicles 7:11
- 2 Chronicles 8:1
- 2 Chronicles 9:11
- 2 Chronicles 12:10
- 2 Chronicles 21:17
- 2 Chronicles 23:5
- 2 Chronicles 23:20
- 2 Chronicles 28:21
- 2 Chronicles 33:20
- 2 Chronicles 33:24
- 2 Kings 10:5
- 2 Kings 11:5
- 2 Kings 11:19
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Open all 62 references in ProtosWhat else appears in these passages?
These turn up in the same passages as Palace.
Common questions
How many times does the Bible mention Palace?
Palace appears in 62 verses across 10 books, most often in 2 Chronicles, which accounts for 11 of them.
Which books of the Bible mention Palace?
2 Chronicles, 2 Kings, 1 Kings, Jeremiah, 2 Samuel, Esther, Isaiah, Exodus, and 2 more.
Where can I read every verse about Palace?
This page lists 24 of them. Protos carries all 62, and opens this entry on the verse you are reading rather than in a separate tab.
