Lexical Summary hekal: a palace, temple Original Word: הֵיכַלTransliteration: hekal Phonetic Spelling: (hay-kal') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a palace, temple Meaning: a large public building, palace, temple Strong's Concordance palace, temple (Aramaic) corresponding to heykal -- palace, temple. see HEBREW heykal Brown-Driver-Briggs H1965. hekal [הֵיכַל] noun masculine palace, temple (Assyrian loan-word; Biblical Hebrew; also Palmyrene היכלא and הכלא Lzb259 SAC43); — emphatic הֵיכְלָא Ezra 4:14 +; construct הֵיכַל Daniel 4:26; suffix לִי הֵיכְּ 4:1, לֵהּ- 6:19; — 1 place of king Daniel 4:1; 4:26; 5:5; 6:19; Ezra 4:14 (see מְלַח). 2 temple: a. in Jerusalem Daniel 5:2-3, Ezra 5:14 a.; 5:15; 6:5 (twice in verse). b. in Babylon Ezra 5:14 b.c. |