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H1817A

דָּל

dalH:N-M

door

door (fig.)

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

דָּל, דַּל noun door, see below דלה. below

[דָּל] noun [masculine] door (Phoenician דל) only figurative: construct דַּל שָׂפָתָ֑י Ps 141:3.

[דָּלָה] noun feminine door, only Qr דְּלָ˜תְךָ (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 Song 8:9 + Ezek 41:24 but here Co article) Gen 19:10 + 18 t.; דָּ֑לֶת Gen 19:9; Judg 19:22 suffix דַּלְתּוֺ 2Kgs 12:10 Du. דְּלָתַיִם (compare Sta§ 187 a) Deut 3:5 + 9 t., דְּתָ֑יִם Job 38:10 construct דַּלְתֵי Josh 2:19 + 6 t. + Ezek 26:2 Co; suffix דְּלָתַי Job 31:32, דְּלָתֶיךָ Zech 11:1 + Isa 26:20 Kt (compare דָּלָה feminine noun), דְּלָתֶיהָ Josh 6:26; 1Kgs 16:34 plural דְּלָתוֺת Jer 36:23 + 10 t.; construct דַּלְתוֺת Judg 3:23 + 19 t. + Ezek 26:2 (Co דלתי); suffix דַּלְתֹתַי Prov 8:34, דַּלְתוֺתָיו 2Chr 3:7; 2Chr 4:22 דַּלְתֹתָיו Neh 3:1; Neh 3:3; Neh 3:6; Neh 3:13; Neh 3:14; Neh 3:15 דַּלְתוֺתֵיהֶם 2Chr 4:9

1. door of house (distinguished from door-way, compare 1Kgs 6:31 פֶּתַח Gen 19:6) Gen 19:9; Gen 19:10; Exod 2:6 (all J E) Deut 15:17; Josh 2:19 (JE) Judg 11:31; Judg 19:22; Judg 19:27; 1Sam 21:14 (דלתות השׁער) 2Kgs 4:4; 2Kgs 4:5; 2Kgs 6:32 (twice in verse); Isa 57:8; Job 31:32 so figurative of wisdom's house Prov 8:34 לִשְׁקֹד עַלדַּֿלְתֹתַי; particular doors of house of ׳י 1Sam 3:15 (׳הֵיכַל י v1Sam 3:3); temple 1Kgs 6:34 (3 t. in verse); 1Kgs 7:50; 2Kgs 18:16; 1Chr 22:3; 2Chr 3:7; 2Chr 4:22; 2Chr 28:24; 2Chr 29:3; Neh 6:10; Mal 1:10 so of Ezekiel's temple, Ezek 41:23; Ezek 41:24 (5 t. in verse); Ezek 41:25.
2. door of room Judg 3:23; Judg 3:24; Judg 3:25; 2Sam 13:17; 2Sam 13:18; 2Kgs 4:33; 2Kgs 9:3; 2Kgs 9:10. especially doors of דביר or קדשׁים ׳ק 1Kgs 6:31; 1Kgs 6:32; 1Kgs 7:50; 2Chr 4:22 compare also Ezek 41:23 also of court עֲזָרָה 2Chr 4:9 (twice in verse), and of porch אוּלָם 2Chr 29:7.
3. gates of city Deut 3:5; Josh 6:26 (compare 1Kgs 16:34) Judg 16:3; 1Sam 23:7; 2Chr 8:5; 2Chr 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 vIsa 45:2 and Ps 107:16; Jer 49:31; Ezek 38:11.
4. in other senses (mostly figurative): door (probably lid) of chest 2Kgs 12:10 aperture of womb Job 3:10 (בטני ׳ד); jaws of crocodile Job 41:6 (פניו ׳ד); lips of man Eccl 12:4 doors enclosing and shutting off sea Job 38:8; Job 38:10 doors of heaven through which comes rain Ps 78:23 (compare ׳אֲרֻבֹּת השׁ Gen 7:11); of column of MS. (from shape) Jer 36:23 figurative of easily accessible woman, Song 8:9 in simile Prov 26:14 of Jerusalem as gate of people Ezek 26:2 of Lebanon Zech 11:1.

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