Debir
de.vir chiefly names a locality in accounts of conquest, boundaries, and town lists, with one genealogical proper-name occurrence.
The proper noun predominantly identifies a locality: it occurs as the destination of military action, a point on a border, and a town named alongside other places. A separate occurrence appears in a genealogy, where the supplied form is likewise marked as a proper noun but the APB does not isolate its English representation.
Senses in use
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A named locality · dominant
The proper-noun form identifies a place in several settings. In Joshua 10:38 the APB renders Joshua's return to and fighting against “Debir”; Joshua 15:7 places it on a border, while Joshua 21:15 includes it among towns given with their pasture. In Joshua 15:15 and Joshua 15:49, the APB also connects the place with the name Kiriath-sannah.
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A genealogical proper name · rare
In 1 Chronicles 6:43, the supplied proper-noun form occurs within the sequence “Son of Jahath, son of Gershom, son of Levi.” The APB presents the genealogical relationships but does not isolate an English rendering for this particular form.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the locality passages, the APB normally presents the name as “Debir,” including military, boundary, and town-list clauses. In 1 Chronicles 6:43, its genealogical translation does not visibly represent the supplied proper-noun form.