Lexicon :: Strong's H1817 - deleṯ

Lot went out to them at the entrance and shut the door behind him.

“Get out of the way! ” they said, adding, “This one came here as an alien, but he’s acting like a judge! Now we’ll do more harm to you than to them.” They put pressure on Lot and came up to break down the door.

“his master is to bring him to the judges[fn] and then bring him to the door or doorpost. His master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he will serve his master for life.

“All these were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a large number of rural villages.

“take an awl and pierce through his ear into the door, and he will become your slave for life. Also treat your female slave the same way.

“If anyone goes out the doors of your house, his death will be his own fault, and we will be innocent. But if anyone with you in the house should be harmed, his death will be our fault.

At that time Joshua imposed this curse:

The man who undertakes

the rebuilding of this city, Jericho,

is cursed before the LORD.

He will lay its foundation

at the cost of his firstborn;

he will finish its gates

at the cost of his youngest.

Ehud escaped by way of the porch, closing and locking the doors of the upstairs room behind him.

“whoever comes out the doors of my house to greet me when I return safely from the Ammonites will belong to the LORD, and I will offer that person as a burnt offering.”

But Samson stayed in bed only until midnight. Then he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate along with the two gateposts, and pulled them out, bar and all. He put them on his shoulders and took them to the top of the mountain overlooking Hebron.

While they were enjoying themselves, all of a sudden, wicked men of the city surrounded the house and beat on the door. They said to the old man who was the owner of the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him! ”

When her master got up in the morning, opened the doors of the house, and went out to leave on his journey, there was the woman, his concubine, collapsed near the doorway of the house with her hands on the threshold.

Samuel lay down until the morning; then he opened the doors of the LORD’s house. He was afraid to tell Eli the vision,

so he pretended to be insane in their presence. He acted like a madman around them,[fn] scribbling[fn] on the doors of the city gate and letting saliva run down his beard.

When it was reported to Saul that David had gone to Keilah, he said, “God has handed him over to me, for he has trapped himself by entering a town with barred gates.”

Instead, he called to the servant who waited on him, “Get this away from me, throw her out, and bolt the door behind her! ”

For the entrance of the inner sanctuary, he made olive wood doors. The pillars of the doorposts were five-sided.[fn]

The two doors were made of cypress wood; the first door had two folding sides, and the second door had two folding panels.

the pure gold ceremonial bowls, wick trimmers, sprinkling basins, ladles,[fn] and firepans; and the gold hinges for the doors of the inner temple (that is, the most holy place) and for the doors of the temple sanctuary.

During his reign, Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho. At the cost of Abiram his firstborn, he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his youngest, he finished its gates, according to the word of the LORD he had spoken through Joshua son of Nun.

“Then go in and shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour oil into all these containers. Set the full ones to one side.”

So he went in, closed the door behind the two of them, and prayed to the LORD.

Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a man ahead of him, but before the messenger got to him, Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent someone to remove my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door to keep him out. Isn’t the sound of his master’s feet behind him? ”

“Then take the flask of oil, pour it on his head, and say, ‘This is what the LORD says: “I anoint you king over Israel.” ’ Open the door and escape. Don’t wait.”

“The dogs will eat Jezebel in the plot of land at Jezreel ​— ​no one will bury her.’ ” Then the young prophet opened the door and escaped.

Then the priest Jehoiada took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the LORD’s temple; the priests who guarded the threshold put into the chest all the silver that was brought to the LORD’s temple.

At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the LORD’s sanctuary and from the doorposts he had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.

David supplied a great deal of iron to make the nails for the doors of the gates and for the fittings, together with an immeasurable quantity of bronze,

He overlaid the temple ​— ​the beams, the thresholds, its walls and doors ​— ​with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.

He made the courtyard of the priests and the large court, and doors for the court. He overlaid the doors with bronze.

the wick trimmers, sprinkling basins, ladles,[fn] and firepans ​— ​of purest gold; and the entryway to the temple, its inner doors to the most holy place, and the doors of the temple sanctuary ​— ​of gold.

He built Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon ​— ​fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars ​— ​

So he said to the people of Judah, “Let’s build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, with doors and bars. The land is still ours because we sought the LORD our God. We sought him and he gave us rest on every side.” So they built and succeeded.

Then Ahaz gathered up the utensils of God’s temple, cut them into pieces, shut the doors of the LORD’s temple, and made himself altars on every street corner in Jerusalem.

In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the LORD’s temple and repaired them.

“They also closed the doors of the portico, extinguished the lamps, did not burn incense, and did not offer burnt offerings in the holy place of the God of Israel.

The high priest Eliashib and his fellow priests began rebuilding the Sheep Gate. They dedicated it and installed its doors. After building the wall to the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel, they dedicated it.

The sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate. They built it with beams and installed its doors, bolts, and bars.

Joiada son of Paseah and Meshullam son of Besodeiah repaired the Old[fn] Gate. They built it with beams and installed its doors, bolts, and bars.

Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the Valley Gate. They rebuilt it and installed its doors, bolts, and bars, and repaired five hundred yards[fn] of the wall to the Dung Gate.

When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and that no gap was left in it ​— ​though at that time I had not installed the doors in the city gates ​— ​

I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was restricted to his house. He said:

Let’s meet at the house of God,

inside the temple.

Let’s shut the temple doors

because they’re coming to kill you.

They’re coming to kill you tonight![fn]