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Strong's #2315 - חֶדֶר
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- chamber, room, parlour, innermost or inward part, within
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2150) rdh (ההדר HhDR) AC: Surround CO: Chamber AB: ?: The surrounding walls of a chamber providing privacy and security. [from: dh- as surrounded by walls with a door]
V) rdh (ההדר HhDR) - Surround: To encircle. KJV (1): (vf: Paal) enter - Strongs: H2314 (חָדַר)
Nm) rdh (ההדר HhDR) - Chamber: A place surrounded by walls. An inner place as hidden or secret. KJV (38): chamber, inner, inward, innermost, parlour, south, within - Strongs: H2315 (חֶדֶר)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
חֶדֶר const. חֲדַר with suff. חֶדְרוֹ, plur. חֲדָרִים const. חַדְרֵי m.
(1) a chamber, especially an inner apartment, whether of a tent or of a house, Genesis 43:30; Judges 16:9, 12 Judges 16:12 hence a bed chamber, 2 Samuel 4:7, 13:10 women’s apartment, Song of Solomon 1:4, 3:4 a bridal chamber, Judges 15:1; Joel 2:16 a store room, Proverbs 24:4. (Arab. خِدْرُ a curtain by which an inner apartment is hidden, whence an inner apartment, a private apartment, compare יְרִיעָה the curtain of a tent, and Syr. ܝܪܳܝܺܥܐܳ a tent.)
(2) metaph. חַדְרֵי־תֵמָן Job 9:9, the chambers of the south, the most remote southern regions, comp. יַרְבְּתֵי צָפוֹן.-חַדְרֵי־בֶמֶן the innermost parts of the breast, Proverbs 18:8, 26:22. מַדְרֵי־מָוֶת “the chambers of death,” i.e. of Hades.
[חֲדַר Hadar, pr.n., Genesis 25:15.]