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H1817 דֶּלֶת (deleth) deh'-leth
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

from 1802; something swinging, i.e. the valve of a door

KJV Usage: door (two-leaved), gate, leaf, lid. (In Psa. 141:3, dal, irreg.)

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

דָּל (dal) — door. door (fig.)

דָּלָה (da.lah) — door. door (fig., door of chamber in which people (personified) hide)

דֶּ֫לֶת (de.let) — door.

1) door, gate 1a) a door 1b) a gate 1c) (fig.) 1c1) of chest lid 1c2) of crocodile jaws 1c3) of doors of the heavens 1c4) of an easily-accessible woman

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

noun f · דַּל

Buildings

door = a hinged barrier at the entrance to a town, building, or room; ◄ usually made out of wood, but occasionally also out of metal; ► provides or prevents access; ≈ sometimes associated with vulnerability

GEN 19:6 · GEN 19:9 · GEN 19:10 · EXO 21:6 · DEU 3:5 · DEU 15:17 · JOS 2:19 · JOS 6:26 · JDG 3:23 · JDG 3:24 · JDG 3:25 · JDG 11:31 · JDG 16:3 · JDG 19:22 · JDG 19:27 · 1SA 3:15 · 1SA 21:14 · 1SA 23:7 · 2SA 13:17 · 2SA 13:18 · 1KI 6:31 · 1KI 6:32 · 1KI 6:34 · 1KI 6:34 · 1KI 6:34 · 1KI 7:50 · 1KI 7:50 · 1KI 16:34 · 2KI 4:4 · 2KI 4:5 · 2KI 4:33 · 2KI 6:32 · 2KI 6:32 · 2KI 9:3 · 2KI 9:10 · 2KI 18:16 · 1CH 22:3 · 2CH 3:7 · 2CH 4:9 · 2CH 4:9 · 2CH 4:22 · 2CH 4:22 · 2CH 8:5 · 2CH 14:6 · 2CH 28:24 · 2CH 29:3 · 2CH 29:7 · NEH 3:1 · NEH 3:3 · NEH 3:6 · NEH 3:13 · NEH 3:14 · NEH 3:15 · NEH 6:1 · NEH 6:10 · NEH 7:1 · NEH 7:3 · NEH 13:19 · JOB 31:32 · PSA 107:16 · PRO 8:34 · PRO 26:14 · ISA 26:20 · ISA 45:1 · ISA 45:2 · ISA 57:8 · JER 49:31 · EZK 38:11 · EZK 41:23 · EZK 41:24 · EZK 41:24 · EZK 41:25 · MAL 1:10

Buildings

leaf (of a double door) = one part of a door that consist of two elements

EZK 41:24 · EZK 41:24 · EZK 41:24

People | ≠ חֹומָה

door > weak-willed person = person who lacks the committment and ability to resist temptations, ◄ as a door gives easy access to intruders

SNG 8:9

Open

door > opening = something that provides or prevents access ◄ as if it were a door

JOB 3:10 · JOB 38:8 · JOB 38:10 · JOB 41:6 · PSA 78:23 · ECC 12:4 · EZK 26:2 · ZEC 11:1

Containers

lid = cover for a receptacle

2KI 12:10

Scrolls

column = vertical division of written text on a scroll

JER 36:23

Enio R. Mueller

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[דָּל] n.[m.] door only fig.: ψ 141:3. ref

[דָּלָה] n.f. door, Is 26:20 fig., door of chamber in which people (personified) hides ref

דֶּ֫לֶת n.f. door door of house

door of room

gates of city

in other senses

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