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Lexicon :: Strong's H1817 - deleṯ

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דֶּלֶת
Transliteration
deleṯ
Pronunciation
deh'-leth
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 431a,e

Strong’s Definitions

דֶּלֶת deleth, deh'-leth; from H1802; something swinging, i.e. the valve of a door:—door (two-leaved), gate, leaf, lid. (Psalm 141:3).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 88x

The KJV translates Strong's H1817 in the following manner: doors (69x), gates (14x), leaves (4x), lid (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 88x
The KJV translates Strong's H1817 in the following manner: doors (69x), gates (14x), leaves (4x), lid (1x).

  1. door, gate

    1. a door

    2. a gate

    3. (fig.)

      1. of chest lid

      2. of crocodile jaws

      3. of doors of the heavens

      4. of an easily-accessible woman

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
דֶּלֶת deleth, deh'-leth; from H1802; something swinging, i.e. the valve of a door:—door (two-leaved), gate, leaf, lid. (Psalm 141:3).
STRONGS H1817: Abbreviations
† [דָּל] noun [masculine] door (Phoenician דל) only figurative: construct דַּל שָׂפָתָ֑י Psalm 141:3.

[דָּלָה] noun feminine door, only Qr דְּלָֽֽֽתְךָ (Kt דלתיך) Isaiah 26:20 figurative, door of chamber in which people (personified) hides (compare also דֶּלֶת dual)

† דֶּ֫לֶת noun feminine (? masculineNehemiah 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 Songs 8:9 + Ezekiel 41:24 but here Co article) Genesis 19:10 + 18 times; דָּ֑לֶת Genesis 19:9; Judges 19:22; suffix דַּלְתּוֺ 2 Kings 12:10; Du. דְּלָתַיִם (compare Sta§ 187 a) Deuteronomy 3:5 + 9 times, דְּתָ֑יִם Job 38:10; construct דַּלְתֵי Joshua 2:19 + 6 times + Ezekiel 26:2 Co; suffix דְּלָתַי Job 31:32, דְּלָתֶיךָ Zechariah 11:1 + Isaiah 26:20 Kt (compare דָּלָה feminine noun), דְּלָתֶיהָ Joshua 6:26; 1 Kings 16:34; plural דְּלָתוֺת Jeremiah 36:23 + 10 times; construct דַּלְתוֺת Judges 3:23 + 19 times + Ezekiel 26:2 (Co דלתי); suffix דַּלְתֹתַי Proverbs 8:34, דַּלְתוֺתָיו 2 Chronicles 3:7; 4:22; דַּלְתֹתָיו Nehemiah 3:1, 3, 6, 13, 14, 15; דַּלְתוֺתֵיהֶם 2 Chronicles 4:9;
1. door of house (distinguished from door-way, compare 1 Kings 6:31 פֶּתַח Genesis 19:6) Genesis 19:9, 10; Exodus 2:6 (all J E) Deuteronomy 15:17; Joshua 2:19 (JE) Judges 11:31; Judges 19:22, 27; 1 Samuel 21:14 (דלתות השׁער) 2 Kings 4:4, 5; 2 Kings 6:32 (twice in verse); Isaiah 57:8; Job 31:32; so figurative of wisdom's house Proverbs 8:34 לִשְׁקֹד עַלדַּֿלְתֹתַי; particular doors of house of י׳ 1 Samuel 3:15 (הֵיכַל י׳ 1 Samuel 3:3); temple 1 Kings 6:34 (3 times in verse); 1 Kings 7:50; 2 Kings 18:16; 1 Chronicles 22:3; 2 Chronicles 3:7; 4:22; 28:24; 29:3; Nehemiah 6:10; Malachi 1:10; so of Ezekiel's temple, Ezekiel 41:23, 24 (5 times in verse); Ezekiel 41:25.
2. door of room Judges 3:23, 24, 25; 2 Samuel 13:17, 18; 2 Kings 4:33; 2 Kings 9:3, 10. especially doors of דביר or קדשׁים ק׳ 1 Kings 6:31, 32; 1 Kings 7:50; 2 Chronicles 4:22 compare also Ezekiel 41:23; also of court עֲזָרָה 2 Chronicles 4:9 (twice in verse), and of porch אוּלָם 2 Chronicles 29:7.
3. gates of city Deuteronomy 3:5; Joshua 6:26 (compare 1 Kings 16:34) Judges 16:3; 1 Samuel 23:7; 2 Chronicles 8:5; 2 Chronicles 14:6; Nehemiah 3:1, 3, 6, 13, 14, 15; Nehemiah 6:1; Nehemiah 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), Nehemiah 7:3; Nehemiah 13:19 (where also sense narrower than || שׁעת) Isaiah 45:1 (|| שׁערים) compare Isaiah 45:2 and Psalm 107:16; Jeremiah 49:31; Ezekiel 38:11.
4. in other senses (mostly figurative): door (probably lid) of chest 2 Kings 12:10; aperture of womb Job 3:10 (בטני ד׳); jaws of crocodile Job 41:6 (פניו ד׳); lips of man Ecclesiastes 12:4; doors enclosing and shutting off sea Job 38:8, 10; doors of heaven through which comes rain Psalm 78:23 (compare אֲרֻבֹּת השׁ׳ Genesis 7:11); of column of MS. (from shape) Jeremiah 36:23; figurative of easily accessible woman, Songs 8:9; in simile Proverbs 26:14; of Jerusalem as gate of people Ezekiel 26:2; of Lebanon Zechariah 11:1.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

7:11; 19:6; 19:9; 19:9; 19:10; 19:10

Exodus

2:6

Deuteronomy

3:5; 3:5; 15:17

Joshua

2:19; 2:19; 6:26; 6:26

Judges

3:23; 3:23; 3:24; 3:25; 11:31; 16:3; 19:22; 19:22; 19:27

1 Samuel

3:3; 3:15; 21:14; 23:7

2 Samuel

13:17; 13:18

1 Kings

6:31; 6:31; 6:32; 6:34; 7:50; 7:50; 16:34; 16:34

2 Kings

4:4; 4:5; 4:33; 6:32; 9:3; 9:10; 12:10; 12:10; 18:16

1 Chronicles

22:3

2 Chronicles

3:7; 3:7; 4:9; 4:9; 4:22; 4:22; 4:22; 8:5; 14:6; 28:24; 29:3; 29:7

Nehemiah

3:1; 3:1; 3:3; 3:3; 3:6; 3:6; 3:13; 3:13; 3:14; 3:14; 3:15; 3:15; 6:1; 6:10; 7:1; 7:3; 13:19; 13:19

Job

3:10; 31:32; 31:32; 38:8; 38:10; 38:10; 41:6

Psalms

78:23; 107:16; 141:3

Proverbs

8:34; 8:34; 26:14

Ecclesiastes

12:4

Song of Songs

8:9; 8:9

Isaiah

26:20; 26:20; 45:1; 45:2; 57:8

Jeremiah

36:23; 36:23; 49:31

Ezekiel

26:2; 26:2; 26:2; 38:11; 41:23; 41:23; 41:24; 41:24; 41:25

Zechariah

11:1; 11:1

Malachi

1:10

H1817

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Strong's Number H1817 matches the Hebrew דֶּלֶת (deleṯ),
which occurs 7 times in 7 verses in 'Jdg' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:23 - Then Ehud went out to the porch[fn]; he shut the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:24 - After he had gone, the servants came and found the doors of the upper room locked. They said, “He must be relieving himself in the inner room of the palace.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:25 - They waited to the point of embarrassment, but when he did not open the doors of the room, they took a key and unlocked them. There they saw their lord fallen to the floor, dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:31 - whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the LORD’s, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:3 - But Samson lay there only until the middle of the night. Then he got up and took hold of the doors of the city gate, together with the two posts, and tore them loose, bar and all. He lifted them to his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:22 - While they were enjoying themselves, some of the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they shouted to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:27 - When her master got up in the morning and opened the door of the house and stepped out to continue on his way, there lay his concubine, fallen in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold.
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