דֶּלֶת
deleth · H1817 · Hebrew · 87 occurrences
A word for 2 things
- City gateCity fortifications281 verses
- Door, doorwayHouse, permanent dwelling176 verses
Meanings
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a door
A hinged barrier at the entrance to a town, building, or room, usually made of wood but occasionally of metal, providing or preventing access and sometimes associated with vulnerability
ExamplesGenesis 19:6 But Lot went out to them at the doorway, and shut the door behind him,
Genesis 19:9 But they said, “Get out of the way!” They also said, “This one came in as a foreigner, and already he is acting like a judge; now we will treat you worse than them!” So they pressed hard against Lot and moved forward to break the door.
Genesis 19:10 But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.
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One part of a door that consist of two elements (leaf (of a double door))
ExamplesEzekiel 41:24 Each of the doors had two leaves, two swinging leaves; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other.
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door > weak-willed person
Person who lacks the committment and ability to resist temptations, as a door gives easy access to intruders
ExamplesSong of Solomon 8:9 “If she is a wall, We will build on her a battlement of silver; But if she is a door, We will barricade her with planks of cedar.”
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door > opening
Something that provides or prevents access as if it were a door
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lid
Cover for a receptacle
Examples2 Kings 12:9 Instead, Jehoiada the priest took a chest and drilled a hole in its lid and put it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of the LORD; and the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.
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column
Vertical division of written text on a scroll
ExamplesJeremiah 36:23 And when Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king cut it with a scribe’s knife and threw it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all of the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
How it’s used In 9 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
44 occurrences in 17 groups
- בַּיִתhouse, household 9
- הוּhis 9
- הֵיכָלtemple, palace 3
- עֲלִיָּהupper room 3
- עֵץtree, wood 3
- שַׁעַרgate 3
- Other words · 11 groups that occur once or twice (14) 14
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
10 occurrences in 5 groups
- שְׁנַיִםtwo 5
- אֶחָדone 2
- פְּנִימִיwithin 1
- שָׁלוֹשׁthree 1
- שֵׁנִיsecond 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בַּיִתhouse, household 1
What it doesIt is the subject
5 occurrences in 4 groups
- סָגַרto shut 2
- נָעַלto lock 1
- סָבַבto turn, to go around, to surround 1
- שָׁבַרto break, to shatter 1
What is done to itIt is the object
45 occurrences in 12 groups
- סָגַרto shut 13
- פָּתַחto open 11
- עָמַדto stand 8
- שָׁבַרto break, to shatter 3
- Other words · 8 groups that occur once or twice (10) 10
What it is said to bePredicate
9 occurrences in 10 groups
- Other words · 10 groups that occur once or twice (11) 11
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- דֶּלֶתdoor 1
- הוּאhe, she, it 1
- שְׁנַיִםtwo 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
18 occurrences in 6 groups
- בin/on/with 8
- עַלon, upon, over, against 6
- לto/for 5
- מִןfrom 4
- אַחַרafter, behind 2
- אֵלto, toward 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עִירcity, town 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- θύρα thýra · G2374 · door, gate, entrance
- Greek θύρα is the standard Septuagint rendering of Hebrew דֶּלֶת, both denoting a door or gate as an architectural opening or its means of closure.
Semantic domains 5 entries
- Buildings001003002001
- דֶּלֶת most commonly names a door, the structural feature of a house or gate, as when Lot shuts the door of his house against the men of Sodom.
- People001001003
- דֶּלֶת is used figuratively of the lips or mouth as a door that must be guarded, as in the Psalmist's plea for the LORD to set a guard over the door of his lips.
- Open002001001042
- The action of a door swinging open or shut ties דֶּלֶת to the sense of opening and closing, the door's basic function of granting or barring access.
- Containers001003001001003
- דֶּלֶת can also denote the lid or cover of a container, extending the word's basic hinged-panel sense to smaller enclosed objects.
- Scrolls001003001001014
- דֶּלֶת further names the leaf or column of a scroll, as in Jeremiah's account of King Jehoiakim cutting columns from the prophet's scroll and burning them.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1817. deleth דַּל דָּל, noun door, see below דלה. below [דָּל] noun [masculine] door…
דַּל דָּל, noun door, see below דלה. below
[דָּל] noun [masculine] door (Phoenician דל) only figurative: construct שָׂפָתָ֑י דַּל Psa 141:3.
[דָּלָה] noun feminine door, only Qr דְּלָתְךָ (Kt דלתיך) Isa 26:20 figurative, door of chamber in which people (personified) hides (compare also דֶּלֶת dual)
דֶּ֫לֶת noun feminine (? masculineNeh 13:19) door (Late Hebrew id.; Assyrian daltu(m) StrmAv 1843 SchrCOT Gloss; Phoenician plural דלהת CISi. 7. 3; — according to BaZMG 1887, 607 from √ ידל, Assyrian edilu, to bolt, bar) — דֶּלֶת (always absolute, and with article except Son 8:9 + Eze 41:24 but here Co article) Gen 19:10 Gen 19:18t.; דָּ֑לֶת Gen 19:9; Jdg 19:22; suffix דַּלְתּוֺ 2Ki 12:10; Du. דְּלָתַיִם (compare Sta§ 187 a) Deu 3:5 Deu 3:9t., דְּתָ֑יִם Job 38:10; construct דַּלְתֵי Jos 2:19 Jos 2:6t. + Eze 26:2 Co; suffix דְּלָתַי Job 31:32, דְּלָתֶיךָ Zec 11:1 + Isa 26:20 Kt (compare דָּלָה feminine noun), דְּלָתֶיהָ Jos 6:26; 1Ki 16:34; plural דְּלָתוֺת Jer 36:23 Jer 36:10t.; construct דַּלְתוֺת Jdg 3:23 Jdg 3:19t. + Eze 26:2 (Co דלתי); suffix דַּלְתֹתַי Pro 8:34, דַּלְתוֺתָיו2Ch 3:7; 2Ch 4:22; דַּלְתֹתָיו Neh 3:1, Neh 3:3, Neh 3:6, Neh 3:13, Neh 3:14, Neh 3:15; דַּלְתוֺתֵיהֶם2Ch 4:9;
1 door of house (distinguished from door-way, compare 1Ki 6:31 מֶּתַח Gen 19:6) Gen 19:9-10, Exo 2:6 (all J E) Deu 15:17; Jos 2:19 (JE) Jdg 11:31; Jdg 19:22, Jdg 19:27; 1Sa 21:14 (השׁער דלתות) 2Ki 4:4-5, 2Ki 6:32 (twice in verse); Isa 57:8; Job 31:32; so figurative of wisdom's house Pro 8:34 עַלדַּֿלְתֹתַי לִשְׁקֹד; particular doors of house of ׳י 1Sa 3:15 (י ׳הֵיכַל 1Sa 3:3); temple 1Ki 6:34 (3 t. in verse); 1Ki 7:50; 2Ki 18:16; 1Ch 22:3; 2Ch 3:7; 2Ch 4:22; 2Ch 28:24; 2Ch 29:3; Neh 6:10; Mal 1:10; so of Ezekiel's temple, Eze 41:23-24, (5 t. in verse); Eze 41:25.
2 door of room Jdg 3:23-24, Jdg 3:25; 2Sa 13:17-18, 2Ki 4:33; 2Ki 9:3, 2Ki 9:10. especially doors of דביר or ׳ק קדשׁים 1Ki 6:31-32, 1Ki 7:50; 2Ch 4:22 compare also Eze 41:23; also of court עֲזָרָה2Ch 4:9 (twice in verse), and of porch אוּלָם2Ch 29:7.
3 gates of city Deu 3:5; Jos 6:26 (compare 1Ki 16:34) Jdg 16:3; 1Sa 23:7; 2Ch 8:5; 2Ch 14:6; Neh 3:1, Neh 3:3, Neh 3:6, Neh 3:13, Neh 3:14, Neh 3:15; Neh 6:1; Neh 7:1 (׳ד then Generally distinct from שׁער, which denotes the whole structure of gate, including posts, open space, etc., while ׳ד is swinging door), Neh 7:3; Neh 13:19 (where also sense narrower than || שׁעת) Isa 45:1 (|| שׁערים) compare Isa 45:2 and Psa 107:16; Jer 49:31; Eze 38:11.
4 in other senses (mostly figurative): door (probably lid) of chest 2Ki 12:10; aperture of womb Job 3:10 (׳ד בטני); jaws of crocodile Job 41:6 (׳ד פניו); lips of man Ecc 12:4; doors enclosing and shutting off sea Job 38:8, Job 38:10; doors of heaven through which comes rain Psa 78:23 (compare השׁ ׳אֲרֻבֹּת Gen 7:11); of column of MS. (from shape) Jer 36:23; figurative of easily accessible woman, Son 8:9; in simile Pro 26:14; of Jerusalem as gate of people Eze 26:2; of Lebanon Zec 11:1.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 5 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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