| De'bir. (a sanctuary). The name of three places of Palestine. A town in the mountains of Judah, Joshua 15:49, one of a group of eleven cities to the west of Hebron. The earlier name of Debir was Kirjath-sepher, "city of book", Jos 15:15; Judges 1:11 and Kirjath-sannah, "city of palm". Joshua 15:49. It was one of the cities given with their "suburbs" to the priests. Jos 21:15; 1 Chronicles 6:58. Debir has not been discovered with certainty in modern times; but about three miles to the west of Hebron is a deep and secluded valley called the Wady Nunkur, enclosed on the north by hills, of which one bears a name certainly suggestive of Debir -- Dewir-ban . Smith's Bible Dictionary or |
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