HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6503
פַּרְוָר
par.bar — colonnade
§ Parbar = "open apartment" a structure or building attached to the west side of Solomon's temple
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Parbar
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
(1 Chr. 26:18), a place apparently connected with the temple, probably a “suburb” (q.v.), as the word is rendered in 2 Kings 23:11; a space between the temple wall and the wall of the court; an open portico into which the chambers of the official persons opened (1 Chr. 26:18).
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.