Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
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;
[syn: Temple of Jerusalem, Temple of Solomon]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Temple of Jerusalem
n 1: 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 [syn: Temple of Jerusalem,
Temple of Solomon]