Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

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.
> 
> 
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