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  • From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • To: "Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Please shed any light on meaning of "temple" in thesepassages
  • Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 23:43:46 -0500

I understand HYKL refers to a large meeting room, and by extension the
structure that houses such a room. It doesn’t specify what the structure is
made of. Nor is it limited to a temple, but used of royalty as well, e.g. 1
King 6:3.

As for the structure itself, 2 Samuel 7 mentions that it was made of
curtains, i.e. a tent.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>

> On 02/02/2004 04:09, Dora Smith wrote:
>
>
>
> >...
> >Note on this says "Elkanah's annual pilgrimage to the temple of Yahweh or
> >house of the Lord (v. 7) in Shiloh..."
> >
> >
> >
> 1 Sam 1:7 BEYT-YHWH "house of the Lord" (cf. 2 Sam 12:20 before the
> building of the temple), but BAYIT does not always mean a permanent
> house, it can refer to a tent e.g. Gen 27:15. Anyway, even if this was a
> regular BAYIT it would have been built of mud brick and so its remains
> would be undetectable, or indistinguishable from those of dwelling
> houses, after 3000 years.
>
> >Now Eli was very old. He heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel,
> >an dhow they lay with the women who served at the entrance to the tent of
> >meeting. ...
> >
> This is 1 Sam 2:22, and the shrine is described as 'OHEL MO`ED "tent of
> meeting", the same term regularly used for the tabernacle which was
> transported through the desert in Moses' time. This clearly implies that
> the author identifies the Shiloh shrine with that tent. Of course the
> tent might have been partly replaced by a more permanent structure, but
> the text doesn't say that it had been.
>
> >...
> >3:3: And Samuel was lying down n the temple of the Lord, where the ark of
> >God was. Note on this says, "Samuel's bed was in the temple near the inner
> >sanctuary where the ark of God was kept. "
> >
> >
>
> Here, also 1:9, HEYKAL "temple" is used, but this word alone doesn't
> tell us what kind of building it was.
>
>
> --
> Peter Kirk
> peter AT qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
> http://www.qaya.org/
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  • Re: [b-hebrew] Please shed any light on meaning of "temple" in thesepassages, Karl Randolph, 02/02/2004

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