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Definition of Temple of solomon
1. Noun. Any of three successive temples in Jerusalem that served as the primary center for Jewish worship; the first temple contained the Ark of the Covenant and was built by Solomon in the 10th century BC and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC; the second was built in 515 BC and the third was an enlargement by Herod the Great in 20 BC that was destroyed by the Romans during a Jewish revolt in AD 70; all that remains is the Wailing Wall.
Generic synonyms: Synagogue, Tabernacle, Temple
Group relationships: Capital Of Israel, Jerusalem
Lexicographical Neighbors of Temple Of Solomon
Literary usage of Temple of solomon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Jewish Church by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1882)
"Temple of Solomon. There is hardly any reign which is not in some way connected
with its construction or its changes. In front of the great church of the ..."
2. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Robertson Smith (1896)
"... the Temple of Solomon, and also the royal portico. Porter. This word when used
in the AV «Iocs not bear its modern signification of a currier of burdens ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"If the description of the temple of Solomon be compared with that of the tabernacle
of Ex. xxv. sqq., it appears that the tabernacle is rather the temple of ..."
4. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"... this new combination of the somewhat opposite qualities of the warrior and
the monk became known as the Knighthood of the Temple of Solomon. ..."
5. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"... this new combination of the somewhat opposite qualities of the warrior and
the monk became known as the Knighthood of the Temple of Solomon. ..."
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