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Nave Topical Bible
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Scofield Reference Index
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Thompson Chain Reference
• Temples, Idolatrous
• Temple, Spiritual
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Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Weapons, Kept in Temple
• Temple; First & Second; & Laver
• Samaritan's; Temple On Gerazim
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Temple, the Second
• Temple, the First
Dictionaries
American Tract Society
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Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
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Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
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Charles Buck Dictionary
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Chabad Knowledge Base
• Holy Temple
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Temple, the Second
• Temple, Solomon's
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Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Veil of the Temple
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Holman Bible Dictionary
• Temple of Jerusalem
• Gates of Jerusalem and the Temple
• Captain of the Temple
Hastings' BibleDictionary
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Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Temple-Keeper
• Temple (2)
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King James Dictionary
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Temple, the
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Jesus, Behind Thy Temple's Veil
• Altars in the Temple of Jerusalem
Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
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• Pinnacle of the Temple
People's Bible Dictionary
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Smith Bible Dictionary
• Veil of The Tabernacle and Temple
• Temple The
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Temple Keeper
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• Idol's Temple
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Wilson's Bible Types
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Webster Dictionary
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Porters of the Temple
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Frederick Temple
• Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
• Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Belus, Temple of
• Court of the Sanctuary; Tabernacle; Temple
• Robbers of Temples
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
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• Veil of the Tabernacle and Temple
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Shushan Gate of the Temple at Jerusalem
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Immensity, the Temple of
• Inner Temple
• Palmerston, Henry John Temple, Viscount
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Sisters of the Temple
• Temple
• Temple of Jerusalem
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Levites (Temple Servants)
• Second Temple, the
• Solomon, Temple of
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Lexicons
• ܗܰܝܟ݁ܠܳܐ
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Girdleston's OT Synonyms
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• αὐτός
• εἰδωλεῖον
• ἱερόν
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• בִּירָה
• בַּיִת בַּת, בֵּית, אַשְׁבֵּעַ בֵּית, הַגָּן , בֵּית תּוֹגַרְמָה
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Trench's NT Synonyms
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TEM'PLE, n. L. 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 1-3 .

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

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, n. L. 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, To build a temple for to appropriate a temple to. Little used.