Miqdâsh — H4720

Definition

masculine noun

a consecrated thing or place, especially, a palace, sanctuary (whether of Jehovah or of idols) or asylum

1. sacred place, sanctuary, holy place
1. sanctuary
1. of the temple
2. of the tabernacle
3. of Ezekiel's temple
4. of Jehovah

Usually translated as

sanctuary, chapel, hallowed part, holy place

Origin

or miqqᵉdâsh; (Exodus 15:17), from H6942

• Derived from Qâdash (H6942)

Greek equivalents

• hagiázō (G37)
• hagiasmós (G38)
• hágion (G39)
• aphorízō (G873)
• hierós (G2413)
• hósios (G3741)

Occurrences

Miqdâsh occurs 75 times in 72 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (2), Leviticus (8), Numbers (5), Joshua (1), 1 Chronicles (2), 2 Chronicles (5), Nehemiah (1), Psalms (5), Isaiah (4), Jeremiah (2), Lamentations (3), Ezekiel (29), Daniel (3), Amos (2)

• Exodus 15:17 — Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary (מִקְּדָ֕שׁ), O Lord, which thy hands have established.
• Exodus 25:8 — And let them make me a sanctuary (מִקְדָּ֑שׁ); that I may dwell among them.
• Leviticus 12:4 — And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary (הַמִּקְדָּשׁ֙), until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.
• Leviticus 16:33 — And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary (מִקְדַּ֣שׁ), and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation.
• Leviticus 19:30 — Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary (וּמִקְדָּשִׁ֖י): I am the LORD.
• Leviticus 20:3 — And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary (מִקְדָּשִׁ֔י), and to profane my holy name.
• Leviticus 21:12 — Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary (הַמִּקְדָּשׁ֙), nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.
• Leviticus 21:12 — Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary (מִקְדַּ֣שׁ) of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.
• Leviticus 21:23 — Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries (מִקְדָּשַׁ֔י): for I the LORD do sanctify them.
• Leviticus 26:2 — Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary (וּמִקְדָּשִׁ֖י): I am the LORD.
• Leviticus 26:31 — And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation (מִקְדְּשֵׁיכֶ֑ם), and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
• Numbers 3:38 — But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary (הַמִּקְדָּ֔שׁ) for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
• Numbers 10:21 — And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary (הַמִּקְדָּ֑שׁ): and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came.
• Numbers 18:1 — And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father’s house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary (הַמִּקְדָּ֑שׁ): and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
• Numbers 18:29 — Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part (מִקְדְּשׁ֖וֹ) thereof out of it.
• Numbers 19:20 — But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary (מִקְדַּ֨שׁ) of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
• Joshua 24:26 — And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary (בְּמִקְדַּ֥שׁ) of the LORD.
• 1 Chronicles 22:19 — Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary (מִקְדַּשׁ֙) of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.
• 1 Chronicles 28:10 — Take heed now; for the LORD hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary (לַמִּקְדָּ֖שׁ): be strong, and do it.
• 2 Chronicles 20:8 — And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary (מִקְדָּ֖שׁ) therein for thy name, saying,
• 2 Chronicles 26:18 — And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary (הַמִּקְדָּשׁ֙); for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God.
• 2 Chronicles 29:21 — And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary (הַמִּקְדָּ֖שׁ), and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD.
• 2 Chronicles 30:8 — Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary (לְמִקְדָּשׁוֹ֙), which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
• 2 Chronicles 36:17 — Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary (מִקְדָּשָׁ֔ם), and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.
• Nehemiah 10:39 — For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary (הַמִּקְדָּ֔שׁ), and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.
• Psalms 68:35 — O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places (מִֽמִּקְדָּ֫שֶׁ֥יךָ): the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.
• Psalms 73:17 — Until I went into the sanctuary (מִקְדְּשֵׁי) of God; then understood I their end.
• Psalms 74:7 — They have cast fire into thy sanctuary (מִקְדָּשֶׁ֑ךָ), they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
• Psalms 78:69 — And he built his sanctuary (מִקְדָּשׁ֑וֹ) like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
• Psalms 96:6 — Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary (בְּמִקְדָּשֽׁוֹ).
• Isaiah 8:14 — And he shall be for a sanctuary (לְמִקְדָּ֑שׁ); but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
• Isaiah 16:12 — And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary (מִקְדָּשׁ֛וֹ) to pray; but he shall not prevail.
• Isaiah 60:13 — The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary (מִקְדָּשִׁ֔י); and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
• Isaiah 63:18 — The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary (מִקְדָּשֶֽׁךָ).
• Jeremiah 17:12 — A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary (מִקְדָּשֵֽׁנוּ).
• Jeremiah 51:51 — We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries (מִקְדְּשֵׁ֖י) of the LORD’s house.
• Lamentations 1:10 — The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary (מִקְדָּשָׁ֔הּ), whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
• Lamentations 2:7 — The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary (מִקְדָּשׁ֔וֹ), he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.
• Lamentations 2:20 — Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary (בְּמִקְדַּ֥שׁ) of the Lord?
• Ezekiel 5:11 — Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary (מִקְדָּשִׁ֣י) with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.
• Ezekiel 7:24 — Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places (מְקַֽדְשֵׁיהֶֽם) shall be defiled.
• Ezekiel 8:6 — He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary (מִקְדָּשִׁ֔י)? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.
• Ezekiel 9:6 — Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary (וּמִמִּקְדָּשִׁ֖י). Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.
• Ezekiel 11:16 — Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary (לְמִקְדָּ֣שׁ) in the countries where they shall come.
• Ezekiel 21:2 — Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places (מִקְדָּשִׁ֑ים), and prophesy against the land of Israel,
• Ezekiel 23:38 — Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary (מִקְדָּשִׁי֙) in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
• Ezekiel 23:39 — For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary (מִקְדָּשִׁ֛י) to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.
• Ezekiel 24:21 — Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary (מִקְדָּשִׁי֙), the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.
• Ezekiel 25:3 — And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary (מִקְדָּשִׁ֣י), when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;
• Ezekiel 28:18 — Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries (מִקְדָּשֶׁ֑יךָ) by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.