חֶדֶר
cheder · H2315 · Hebrew · 38 occurrences
A word for 4 things
- RoomHouse, permanent dwelling77 verses
- BedroomRoom12 verses
- Inner roomRoom9 verses
- Bridal chamber (marriage bed)Room8 verses
Meanings
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room, chamber
Area enclosed by walls or partitions, floor, and ceiling; part of building
ExamplesGenesis 43:30 Joseph then hurried out, for he was deeply stirred over his brother, and he looked for a place to weep; so he entered his chamber and wept there.
Deuteronomy 32:25 ‘Outside the sword will make them childless, And inside, terror— Both young man and virgin, The nursing child with the man of gray hair.
Judges 3:24 When he had left, the king’s servants came and looked, and behold, the doors of the roof chamber were locked; and they said, “Undoubtedly he is relieving himself in the cool room.”
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room, chamber
Literally: room; hence: a restricted area within a larger unit; part of the universe
ExamplesJob 9:9 Who makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the constellations of the south.
Job 37:9 “From the south comes the storm, And from the north wind the cold.
Proverbs 7:27 Her house is the way to Sheol, Descending to the chambers of death.
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inner part
Literally: room; hence: a restricted area within a larger unit; part of the human body
ExamplesProverbs 20:27 The spirit of a person is the lamp of the LORD, Searching all the innermost parts of his being.
Proverbs 20:30 Bruising wounds clean away evil, And blows cleanse the innermost parts.
How it’s used In 6 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
20 occurrences in 11 groups
- מִשְׁכָּבbed, couch 4
- בֶּטֶןwomb, belly 4
- הוּhis 3
- Other words · 8 groups that occur once or twice (9) 9
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- פְּנִימִיwithin 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מָלֵאto be full, to fill 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- חָפַשׂto search 1
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
21 occurrences in 3 groups
- בin/on/with 26
- מִןfrom 5
- אֵלto, toward 3
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- תַּבְנִיתpattern, likeness, form 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
- κοιτών koitṓn · G2846 · bedroom
- Greek κοιτών specifically denotes a bedroom/bedchamber, while Hebrew חֶדֶר encompasses inner chambers more broadly (including but not limited to bedrooms); κοιτών represents the bedroom-specific subset of חֶדֶר's semantic range.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Constructions001003002
- The noun names an inner room or chamber within a building, as Joseph, overcome with emotion at seeing Benjamin, hurried out to find a place to weep and "entered his chamber" alone (Genesis 43:30).
- People001001003
- An inner chamber is idiomatically the setting for private, personal matters conducted among individuals — secret counsel, intimate speech, or a plot hatched away from public view — rather than the physical room itself.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2315. cheder חֶ֫דֶר noun masculine1Ch 28:11 chamber, room (Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician…
חֶ֫דֶר noun masculine1Ch 28:11 chamber, room (Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician חדרת חדר,; Sabean חֿדר MordtZMG, 1876, 24; Ethiopic ** is not 'chamber,' but (from √ dwell) dwelling-place, abode, tent.) — absolute חֶדֶר 2Sa 13:10-11t.; הַחַ֫דְרָה Gen 43:20; 1Ki 1:15; הֶחָ֑דְרָה Jdg 15:1; 2Sa 13:10; construct חֶ֫דֶר Son 3:4; חֲדֶר Exodus 7:28 Exo 7:5t.; suffix חֶדְרוֺ Joe 2:16; plural חֲדָרִים Deu 32:25; Pro 24:4; construct חַדְרֵי Pro 7:27 Pro 7:8t.; suffix חֲדָרֶיךָ Isa 26:20; חֲדָרָיו Son 1:4; 1Ch 28:11; — room, chamber, usually private, as bedroom Gen 43:30 (J), Jdg 15:1; Jdg 16:9, Jdg 16:12; 2Sa 13:10 (twice in verse); 1Ki 1:15; Son 1:4; Isa 26:20; Jdg 14:18 read probably הַחַדְרָה bridal-chamber for הַחַרְסָה StaZAW 1884, 253, compare Joe 2:16 (|| חֻמָּתָהּ of bride), ׳ח הוֺרָתִי Son 3:4 (|| אִמִּי בֵּית); of kings (of Egypt) Psa 105:30; specifically: ׳ח מִשְׁכָּב bed-chamber Exodus 7:28 (J), 2Sa 4:7; 2Ki 6:12; Ecc 10:20; other combinations: — ׳ח הַמְּקֵרָה Jdg 3:24 = cool chamber; ׳ח הַמְּנִימִים 1Ch 28:11 inner chamber; מַשְׂכִּיתוֺ חדרי Eze 8:12 his chambers of imagery (strike out Hi Co Sgfrom); ׳ח ׳בְּח a chamber within a chamber, i.e. an innermost chamber 1Ki 20:30; 1Ki 22:25 2Ch 18:24; 2Ki 9:2; plural = store-rooms Pro 24:4; so ׳ח הַמִּטּוֺת 2Ki 11:2 2Ch 22:11, i.e. room where beds were stored (Ke Th); metaphor מָ֑וֶת ׳ח Pro 7:27 (|| שְׁאוֺל דַּרְכֵי); תֵּמָן חדרי Job 9:9 chambers of south (where constellations are treasured up, see Di; Hoffm. thinks of proper name of star or constellation); compare Job 37:9 a chamber whence comes storm-wind (סוּפָה); בֶטֶן חַדְרֵי i.e. inner parts of body, only figurative Pro 18:8 = Pro 26:22; Pro 20:27, Pro 20:30; in Deu 32:25 מֵחֲדָרִים = within, poetic for מִבַּיִת, || מִחוּץ without.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 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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