Debir

Template:Unfocused A Biblical word, debir or dvir (דְּבִיר‎) may refer to:

Names

• Debir King of Eglon, a Canaanite king of Eglon, slain by Joshua (). Aided by miracles, Joshua's army routed the Canaanite military, forcing Debir and the other kings to seek refuge in a cave. There they were trapped until later executed.

Places

• A royal Canaanite city in the Judaean Mountains also known as Kirjath Sepher () and Kiriath-Sannah. () Following the Israelite conquest, it became a Kohanic city. () It is commonly identified with Khirbet Rabud southwest of Hebron. Claude Reignier Conder and Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener thought Debir, mentioned in was ad-Dhahiriya.
• A site mentioned to be in the low plain of Achor. () Though its exact location is not known, the name may have survived in Thogheret ed-Debr, southwest of Jericho.
• A location in Gilead, at the border of the Tribe of Gad, commonly believed to be the same as Lo-debar. () Some identify the place with Umm ed-Dabar, Template:Convert south of the Sea of Galilee.

Religion

• The debir (Template:Langx), the innermost part of the Holy of Holies in Solomon's Temple
• According to the apocryphal text Lives of the Prophets, after the death of Zechariah ben Jehoiada, the priests of the Temple could no longer see the apparitions of the angels of the Lord, nor could make divinations with the Ephod, nor give responses from the Debir

See also

• Tell Beit Mirsim
• Dvir (disambiguation)