# מִקְדָּשׁ (miqdash) Israeli respelling: miq-dash. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H4720. 71 Old Testament occurrences. a consecrated thing or place, especially, a palace, sanctuary (whether of Jehovah or of idols) or asylum King James renderings: chapel, hallowed part, holy place, sanctuary. Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/miqdash-h4720 ## Occurrences - [Exodus 15:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Exodus 25:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/25/8) — And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. - [Leviticus 12:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 sanct… - [Leviticus 16:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/16/33) — And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the a… - [Leviticus 19:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/19/30) — Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. - [Leviticus 20:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 defi… - [Leviticus 21:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/21/12) — Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him:… - [Leviticus 21:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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: for I t… - [Leviticus 26:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/2) — Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. - [Leviticus 26:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/31) — And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. - [Numbers 3:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 A… - [Numbers 10:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/10/21) — And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came. - [Numbers 18:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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: and thou and thy… - [Numbers 18:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 thereof out of it. - [Numbers 19:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 de… - [Joshua 24:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 sanct… - [1 Chronicles 22:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/22/19) — Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark o… - [1 Chronicles 28:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/28/10) — Take heed now; for the LORD hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it. - [2 Chronicles 20:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/20/8) — And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying, - [2 Chronicles 26:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 pri… - [2 Chronicles 29:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 sanct… - [2 Chronicles 30:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/30/8) — Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified… - [2 Chronicles 36:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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, and had n… - [Nehemiah 10:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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,… - [Psalms 68:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/68/35) — O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God. - [Psalms 73:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/73/17) — Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. - [Psalms 74:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/74/7) — They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground. - [Psalms 78:69](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/69) — And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever. - [Psalms 96:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/96/6) — Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. - [Isaiah 8:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/8/14) — And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a s… - [Isaiah 16:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 to pray; but he shall… - [Isaiah 60:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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; and I… - [Isaiah 63:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/63/18) — The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. - [Jeremiah 17:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/17/12) — A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary. - [Jeremiah 51:51](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/51) — We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD’s… - [Lamentations 1:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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, whom th… - [Lamentations 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/7) — The LORD hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; the… - [Lamentations 2:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 an… - [Ezekiel 5:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/5/11) — Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine… - [Ezekiel 8:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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, tha… - [Ezekiel 9:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 sa… - [Ezekiel 11:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 c… - [Ezekiel 21:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/21/2) — Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel, - [Ezekiel 23:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/38) — Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths. - [Ezekiel 23:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/39) — For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they… - [Ezekiel 24:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/24/21) — Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire o… - [Ezekiel 25:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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, when it… - [Ezekiel 28:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/28/18) — Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fir… - [Ezekiel 37:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/37/26) — Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them… - [Ezekiel 37:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/37/28) — And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore. - [Ezekiel 43:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/43/21) — Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary. - [Ezekiel 44:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/1) — Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut. - [Ezekiel 44:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/5) — And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning… - [Ezekiel 44:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/7) — In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute… - [Ezekiel 44:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/8) — And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves. - [Ezekiel 44:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/9) — Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger th… - [Ezekiel 44:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/11) — Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the bur… - [Ezekiel 44:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/15) — But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they… - [Ezekiel 44:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/16) — They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge. - [Ezekiel 45:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/45/3) — And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanc… - [Ezekiel 45:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/45/4) — The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the LORD: and… - [Ezekiel 45:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/45/18) — Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse th… - [Ezekiel 47:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/47/12) — And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither sh… - [Ezekiel 48:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/48/8) — And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand r… - [Ezekiel 48:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/48/10) — And for them, even for the priests, shall be this holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the west t… - [Ezekiel 48:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/48/21) — And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over aga… - [Daniel 8:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/8/11) — Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was… - [Daniel 9:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/9/17) — Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is des… - [Daniel 11:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/11/31) — And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall… - [Amos 7:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/7/9) — And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jer… - [Amos 7:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/7/13) — But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king’s chapel, and it is the king’s court.