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'''Debir''', '''devir''', or '''dvir''' ({{langx|hbo|דְּבִיר}} {{IPA|he|dǝˈviːr|pron}}) may refer to:

==Names==
* Debir King of Eglon, a [[Canaan]]ite [[monarch|king]] of [[Eglon, Canaan|Eglon]], slain by [[Joshua]] ({{bibleverse||Joshua|10|HE}}). Aided by miracles, Joshua's army routed the Canaanite military, forcing Debir and the other kings to seek refuge in a cave. There they were trapped until later executed.

==Places==
* A royal Canaanite city in the [[Judaean Mountains]] also known as [[Kirjath Sepher]] ({{bibleverse||Judges|1:11|HE}}) and '''Kiriath-Sannah'''. ({{bibleverse||Joshua|15:49|HE}}) Following the Israelite conquest, it became a [[Kohen|Kohanic]] city. ({{bibleverse||Joshua|21:9|HE}}) It is commonly identified with [[Rabud|Khirbet Rabud]] southwest of [[Hebron]].<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last=Lemche |first=Niels Peter |title=Historical dictionary of ancient Israel |date=2004 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-4848-1 |series=Historical dictionaries of ancient civilizations and historical eras |location=Lanham, Md. |pages=105 |quote=}}</ref> [[Claude Reignier Conder]] and [[Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener]] thought ''Debir'', mentioned in {{bibleverse||Joshua|15:49|HE}} was [[ad-Dhahiriya]].<ref name=SWP402>Conder and  Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp03conduoft#page/402/mode/1up 402]</ref><ref>[[C. R. Conder|Conder]] (1879), p. [https://archive.org/stream/tentworkinpalest02conduoft#page/93/mode/1up 93]</ref> 
* A site mentioned to be in the low plain of [[Achor]]. ({{bibleverse||Joshua|15:7|HE}}) Though its exact location is not known, the name may have survived in Thogheret ed-Debr, southwest of [[Jericho]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2018}}
* A location in [[Gilead]], at the border of the [[Tribe of Gad]], commonly believed to be the same as [[Lo-debar]]. ({{bibleverse||Joshua|13:26|HE}}) Some identify the place with Umm ed-Dabar, {{convert|16|km|mi|abbr=on}} south of the [[Sea of Galilee]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2018}}

==Religion==
* The ''debir'' ({{langx|hbo|דְּבִיר|dəḇir}}), the innermost part of the [[Holy of Holies]] in [[Solomon's Temple]]
* According to the apocryphal text ''[[Lives of the Prophets]]'', after the death of [[Zechariah ben Jehoiada]], the priests of the Temple could no longer see the apparitions of the [[angel]]s of the Lord, nor could make [[divination]]s with the [[Ephod]], nor give responses from the ''Debir''

==See also==
*[[Tell Beit Mirsim]]
*[[Dvir (disambiguation)]]

==References==
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==Bibliography==
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*{{cite book|last=Conder|first=C.R.|author-link=Claude Reignier Conder|title=Tent Work in Palestine. A Record of Discovery and Adventure|volume=2 |publisher=Richard Bentley & Son (published for the Committee of the [[Palestine Exploration Fund|PEF]])|year=1879|location=London|language=en|url=https://archive.org/stream/tentworkinpalest02conduoft#page/n9/mode/2up |oclc=23589738}}
*{{cite book|last1=Conder|first1=C.R.|authorlink1=Claude Reignier Conder|last2=Kitchener|first2=H.H.|authorlink2=Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener|year=1883|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp03conduoft|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology|location=London|publisher=[[Palestine Exploration Fund|Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund]]|volume=3}} 
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