house, family, dynasty, temple
house, family, dynasty, temple. House, household, royal dynasty (House of David), and temple (Beit YHWH, House of the LORD).
prayer, intercession, supplication
prayer, intercession, supplication. Prayer, liturgical supplication, intercessory appeal; core genre of Psalms ('A prayer of Moses', Psalm 90:1; Solomon's Temple prayer).
Interactive 3D Architectural Model • Luke 2, John 2 & Acts 3
Reconstruction of the expanded Second Temple Mount complex in Jerusalem during the life and ministry of Jesus and the early Church—featuring the towering white-stone and gold Sanctuary facade, the Court of the Women, Court of the Gentiles, Solomon's Portico , the Royal Stoa, and the Antonia Fortress.
a house, dwelling, at home
a house, dwelling, at home. Primary meaning: a house, dwelling, at home, the household. Strong's: properly, residence (abstractly), but usually (concretely) an abode (literally or figuratively); by implication, a family (especially domestics). Lexical nuances: a house , dwelling : Mt 2:11 7:24-27 , Mk 1:29 , al.; ἐν οἰκίᾳ (= cl. κατ ̓ οἰκίαν ), at home , Lk 8:27 ; εἰς οἰ. , II Jo 10 ; οἰ , c. gen. pers., usually has the art. ( Mt 8:14 , al., but cf. οἶκος and v. Bl., § 46, 9); ἡ οἰ. τ. πατρός μου , Jo 14:2 . Metaph., of the body as the dwelling of the soul: II Co 5:1 ; of property (as בַּיִת , Ge 45:18 , LXX, τ. ὑπάρχοντα ; III Ki 13:8 , LXX, οἶκος )...
Interactive 3D Silver Coin • Exodus 30:13 & Matthew 17:24–27
High-purity silver half-shekel (didrachm) used for the annual Sanctuary tax prescribed in Exodus 30:13–15 for every adult Israelite and referenced in Matthew 17:24–27 when Jesus and Peter paid the two-person Temple tax at Capernaum .
Wiki Article • Prophets & Wisdom
Preserved in the World English Bible (WEB), King James Version (KJV), and Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV), the eighteen Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha books bridge the intertestamental period between the return from Babylon and the New Testament era.
Acts • Chapter 3 (26 verses)
Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; ... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , Jacob/Israel , Abram/Abraham , Isaac , Moses , Nazareth , Solomon's .
Jewish, a Jew, Judæa
Jewish, a Jew, Judæa. Primary meaning: Jewish, a Jew, Judæa. Strong's: Judæan, i.e. belonging to Jehudah. Lexical nuances: Jewish : ἀνήρ , Ac 10:28 22:3 ; ἄνθρωπος , Ac 21:39 ; ψευδοπροφήτης , 13:6 ; ἀσχιερεύς , 19:14 ; γυνή , 16:1 24:24 ; γῆ , Jo 3:22 ; χώρα , Mk 1:5 . Substantively, Ἰουδαῖος, ὁ , a Jew : Jo 4:9 , Ac 18:24 , Ro 2:28 ; pl., Re 2:9 3:9 ; οἱ Ἰ. , Mt 2:2 , Mk 7:3 , Jo 2:6 , al.; Ἰ. τε καὶ Ἕλληνες , Ac 14:1 , al.; κ. προσήλυτοι , Ac 2:10 ; ἔθνη τε κ. Ἰ. , Ac 14:5 ; οἱ κατὰ τὰ ἔθνη Ἰ. , Ac 21:21 ; of Je...
Judaism, the observance of Jewish rites
Judaism, the observance of Jewish rites. Primary meaning: Judaism, the observance of Jewish rites. Strong's: "Judaism", i.e. the Jewish faith and usages. Lexical nuances: Judaism , the observance of Jewish rites : Ga 1:13 , 14 .†
Ezra • Chapter 4 (24 verses)
Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the Lord God of Israel ; Then they came to Zerubbabel , and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we... Mentions: Judah , Benjamin , Jacob/Israel , Zerubbabel , Jeshua , Persia , Jerusalem , Samaria .
Ezekiel • Chapter 41 (26 verses)
Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle. And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side...
Revelation • Chapter 11 (19 verses)
And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy ... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , Sodom , Egypt .
Interactive 3D Epigraphic Scan • Isaiah 22:15–16
Monumental Hebrew inscription carved into the limestone cliffside tombs along the eastern slope of the Kidron Valley opposite the Temple Mount in Jerusalem , echoing Isaiah 's oracle concerning royal stewards hewing rock-cut sepulchres on high ( Isaiah 22:15–16 ).
veil, curtain
veil, curtain. Primary meaning: veil, curtain. Strong's: something spread thoroughly, i.e. (specially) the door screen (to the Most Holy Place) in the Jewish Temple. Lexical nuances: in NT always the inner veil or curtain of the Temple (or Tabernacle): Mt 27:51 , Mk 15:38 , Lk 23:45 , He 6:19 9:3 ; fig., ἡ σὰρξ αὐτοῦ , He 10:20 .†
Interactive 3D Mesopotamian Ziggurat • Genesis 11:1–9 & 11:31
Three-tiered stepped mudbrick and baked-brick ziggurat erected by King Ur-Nammu at Ur in southern Mesopotamia , featuring three converging monumental staircases ascending toward a summit shrine—illustrating the monumental Mesopotamian temple-tower architecture behind Genesis 11 .
Jeremiah • Chapter 24 (10 verses)
The Lord shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the Lord, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah , and the princes of Judah , with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem , a... Mentions: Jehoiachin (or Jeconiah), Jehoiakim (or Eliakim), Judah, Jacob/Israel , Zedekiah (or Matteniah ), Babylon , Jerusalem , Egypt .
1 Esdras • Chapter 9 (55 verses)
Then Esdras rising from the court of the temple went to the chamber of Jonas the son of Eliasib, and lodged there, and did eat no bread nor drink water, mourning for the great iniquities of the multitude. And there was made proclamation in all Jewry and Jerusalem to all them that... Mentions: Judah , Benjamin , Jacob/Israel , Jonathan , Yeshua the Messiah , Jerusalem .
Interactive 3D Priestly Blessing Amulet • Numbers 6:24–26
Tiny rolled silver amulet excavated by Gabriel Barkay in 1979 in a late First Temple burial cave overlooking the Hinnom Valley in Jerusalem . Etched in Paleo-Hebrew script, it preserves the oldest known surviving text from the Hebrew Bible: the Aaronic Priestly Blessing of Numbers 6:24–26 .
The Second Book of the Maccabees • Chapter 3 (40 verses)
WHEN the holy city was inhabited with all peace, and the laws were kept very well, because of the godliness of Onias the high priest , and his hatred of wickedness, it came to pass that even the kings themselves did honor the place, and glorify the temple with the noblest presents... Mentions: Simon , Benjamin , Asia , Phoenicia , Jerusalem .
Interactive 3D Judean Coin • Mark 12:41–44 & Luke 21:1–4
Small bronze Hasmonean prutah/lepton minted in Jerusalem under King Alexander Jannaeus that remained the smallest denomination bronze coin in daily circulation during the first century AD—universalized in the Gospels as the 'widow's mite' cast into the Temple treasury ( Mark 12:42 ; Luke 21:2 ).
Interactive 3D Cuneiform Artifact • Ezra 1:1–4
Ancient barrel-shaped baked clay cylinder inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform on behalf of King Cyrus the Great after his conquest of Babylon in 539 BC, recording his policy of restoring exiled peoples and sacred temple vessels to their homelands—paralleling the decree in Ezra 1:1–4 and 2 Chronicles 36:22–23 .
Interactive 3D Manuscript & Jar Reconstruction • Isaiah 40 & Psalms
Second Temple period biblical manuscripts written on parchment and papyrus and sealed inside cylindrical terracotta storage jars in the eleven caves above Khirbet Qumran on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea—including the complete Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaᵃ).
1 Esdras • Chapter 7 (15 verses)
Then Sisinnes the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia , and Sathrabuzanes, with their companions, following the commandments of king Darius, did very carefully oversee the holy works, assisting the elders of the Jews and rulers of the temple. And so the holy works prospered, whi... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Moses , Phoenicia , Assyria .
Daniel • Chapter 5 (31 verses)
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem ; that ... Mentions: Daniel , Judah , Jerusalem , Babylon .
The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus • Chapter 50 (29 verses)
It was Simon , the son of Onias, the great priest, Who in his life repaired the house, And in his days strengthened the temple: And by him was built from the foundation the height of the double wall, The lofty underworks of the inclosure of the temple: In his days the cistern of... Mentions: Simon , Aaron , Jacob/Israel , Yeshua the Messiah , Eleazar , Samaria , Jerusalem .
Mark • Chapter 13 (37 verses)
And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here! And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , James ( Jacob ), Daniel .
1 Esdras • Chapter 1 (58 verses)
AND Josias held the passover in Jerusalem to his Lord, and offered the passover the fourteenth day of the first month; having set the priests according to their daily courses, being arrayed in their vestments, in the temple of the Lord. And he spoke to the Levites , the temple-s... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Solomon , David , Moses , Joram , Jerusalem , Egypt , Carchemish , Euphrates , Megiddo .
Ezra • Chapter 3 (13 verses)
And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem . Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel , and his brethren, and b... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Zerubbabel , Shealtiel , Moses , Judah , Jerusalem , Jeshua , Tyre , Lebanon , Joppa .
The Second Book of the Maccabees • Chapter 10 (38 verses)
And Maccabaeus and they that were with him, the Lord leading them on, recovered the temple and the city; and they pulled down the altars that had been built in the marketplace by the aliens, and also the walls of sacred inclosures. And having cleansed the sanctuary they made ano... Mentions: Simon , Joseph , Jacob/Israel , Phoenicia , Cyprus , Jerusalem , Asia .
Acts • Chapter 4 (37 verses)
And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next ... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , Jacob/Israel , David , Joses , Jerusalem , Nazareth , Cyprus .