Debir

A Biblical word, debir or dvir {{IPA|he|dǝˈviːr|pron}} ({{Script/Hebrew|דְּבִיר}}) may refer to:

Names

Debir King of Eglon, a Canaanite king of Eglon, slain by Joshua ({{bibleverse||Joshua|10|HE}}). Aided by miracles, Joshua's army routed the Canaanite military, forcing Debir and the other kings to seek refuge in a cave. There they were trapped until later executed.

A royal Canaanite city in the Judaean Mountains also known as Kirjath Sepher ({{bibleverse||Judges|1:11|HE}}) and Kiriath-Sannah. ({{bibleverse||Joshua|15:49|HE}}) Following the Israelite conquest, it became a Kohanic city. ({{bibleverse||Joshua|21:9|HE}}) It is commonly identified with Khirbet Rabud southwest of Hebron.{{Cite book |last=Lemche |first=Niels Peter |title=Historical dictionary of ancient Israel |date=2004 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-4848-1 |series=Historical dictionaries of ancient civilizations and historical eras |location=Lanham, Md. |pages=105 |quote=}} Claude Reignier Conder and Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener thought Debir, mentioned in {{bibleverse||Joshua|15:49|HE}} was ad-Dhahiriya.Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp03conduoft#page/402/mode/1up 402]Conder (1879), p. [https://archive.org/stream/tentworkinpalest02conduoft#page/93/mode/1up 93]
A site mentioned to be in the low plain of Achor. ({{bibleverse||Joshua|15:7|HE}}) Though its exact location is not known, the name may have survived in Thogheret ed-Debr, southwest of Jericho.{{Citation needed|date=May 2018}}
A location in Gilead, at the border of the Tribe of Gad, commonly believed to be the same as Lo-debar. ({{bibleverse||Joshua|13:26|HE}}) Some identify the place with Umm ed-Dabar, {{convert|16|km|mi|abbr=on}} south of the Sea of Galilee.{{Citation needed|date=May 2018}}

The debir ({{langx|hbo|דְּבִיר|dəḇir}}), the innermost part of the Holy of Holies in Solomon's Temple
According to the apocryphal text Lives of the Prophets, after the death of Zechariah ben Jehoiada, the priests of the Temple could no longer see the apparitions of the angels of the Lord, nor could make divinations with the Ephod, nor give responses from the Debir

{{cite book|last=Conder|first=C.R.|author-link=Claude Reignier Conder|title=Tent Work in Palestine. A Record of Discovery and Adventure|volume=2 |publisher=Richard Bentley & Son (published for the Committee of the PEF)|year=1879|location=London|language=en|url=https://archive.org/stream/tentworkinpalest02conduoft#page/n9/mode/2up |oclc=23589738}}
{{cite book|last1=Conder|first1=C.R.|authorlink1=Claude Reignier Conder|last2=Kitchener|first2=H.H.|authorlink2=Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener|year=1883|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp03conduoft|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology|location=London|publisher=Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund|volume=3}}