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Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
Read in context →God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
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raqqâh · rak-kaw'
properly, thinness, i.e. the side of the head
Strong's KJV usage: temple.
Strong's first: Judges 4:21Strong's last: Song of Solomon 6:7
Open full H7541 profile →naós · nah-os'
a fane, shrine, temple
Strong's KJV usage: :--shrine, temple.
Strong's first: Acts 7:48Strong's last: Acts 17:24
Open full G3485 profile →hêykâl · hay-kawl'
a large public building, such as a palace or temple
Strong's KJV usage: palace, temple.
Strong's first: Hosea 8:14Strong's last: Joel 3:5
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Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.
She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
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TEM'PLE, noun [Latin templum.]
1. A public edifice erected in honor of some deity. Among pagans, a building erected to some pretended deity, and in which the people assembled to worship. Originally, temples were open places, as the Stonehenge in England. In Rome, some of the temples were open, and called sacella; others were roofed, and called oedes. The most celebrated of the ancient pagan temples were that of Belus in Babylon, that of Vulcan at Memphis, that of Jupiter at Thebes, that of Diana at Ephesus, that of Apollo in Miletus, that of Jupiter Olympius in Athens, and that of Apollo at Delphi. The most celebrated and magnificent temple erected to the true God, was that built by Solomon in Jerusalem.
In Scripture, the tabernacle is sometimes called by this name. 1 Samuel 1:9-3.
2. A church; an edifice erected among christians as a place of public worship.
Can he whose life is a perpetual insult to the authority of God, enter with any pleasure a temple consecrated to devotion and sanctified by prayer?
3. A place in which the divine presence specially resides; the church as a collective body. Ephesians 2:21.
4. In England, the Temples are two inns of court, thus called because anciently the dwellings of the knights Templars. They are called the Inner and the Middle temple
TEM'PLE, noun [Latin tempus, tempora. The primary sense of the root of this word is to fall. See Time.]
1. Literally, the fall of the head; the part where the head slopes from the top.
2. In anatomy, the anterior and lateral part of the head, where the skull is covered by the temporal muscles.
TEM'PLE, verb transitive To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to. [Little used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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