KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: A sacred house, building, or place devoted to the worship or presence of God or an idol. Sense 2: Christ's body, expressly called the temple of his body. Sense 3: A believer's body, or believers collectively, called the temple of God or of the Holy Ghost. Sense 4: The Lord God Almighty and the Lamb, expressly called the temple of the city.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: 1 Samuel 1:9
Complete exact-word concordance
When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
When I was daily with you in the Temple, yee stretched foorth no hands against mee: but this is your houre, and the power of darkenesse.
And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
And the Sunne was darkened, and the vaile of the temple was rent in the mids.
And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.
And were continually in the Temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.
And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
And found in the Temple those that sold oxen, and sheepe, and doues, and the changers of money, sitting.
And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables;
And when he had made a scourge of small cordes, he droue them all out of the Temple, and the sheepe & the oxen, and powred out the changers money, and ouerthrew the tables,
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
Iesus answered, and said vnto them, Destroy this temple, and in three dayes I will raise it vp.
1611 marginal noteMat. 26.61.
Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
Then said the Iewes, Fourty and six yeres was this Temple in building, and wilt thou reare it vp in three dayes?
But he spake of the temple of his body.
But he spake of the temple of his body.
Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.
Afterward Iesus findeth him in the Temple, & said vnto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sinne no more, lest a worse thing come vnto thee.
¶ Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.
¶ Now about the middest of the feast, Iesus went vp into the Temple, and taught.
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1 · Direct Scripture definition
But he spake of the temple of his body.
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
2 · KJV context and cross-references
Historical English dictionary sources
A public edifice erected in honor of some deity. ... In Scripture, the tabernacle is sometimes called by this name. ... A place in which the divine presence specially resides.
