Lexicon :: Strong's H2315 - ḥeḏer

‘Outside the sword will bereave,

And inside [the chambers] terror—

For both young man and virgin,

For the nursing child and the man of gray hair.

When Ehud departed, Eglon’s servants came. And when they saw that the doors of the upper room were locked, they said, “He is only [fn]relieving himself in the cool room.”

But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife with a young goat [as a gift of reconciliation]; and he said, “I will go in to my wife in her room.” But her father would not allow him to go in.

So Bathsheba went to the king in his bedroom. Now the king was very old and weak, and Abishag the Shunammite was attending the king.

Then David gave to his son Solomon the plan for the porch of the temple, its buildings, its treasuries, its upper chambers, its inner rooms, and for the place for the [ark and its] mercy seat;

Who made [the constellations] the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades,

And the [vast starry] spaces of the south;

“Out of its chamber comes the storm,

And cold from the north wind.

Their land swarmed with frogs,

Even in the chambers of their kings.

Her house is the way to [fn]Sheol,

Descending to the chambers of death.

The words of a whisperer (gossip) are like dainty morsels [to be greedily eaten];

They go down into the innermost chambers of the body [to be remembered and mused upon].

The [fn]spirit (conscience) of man is the lamp of the LORD,

Searching and examining all the innermost parts of his being.

Blows that wound cleanse away evil,

And strokes reach to the innermost parts.

And by knowledge its rooms are filled

With all precious and pleasant riches.

The words of a whisperer (gossip) are like dainty morsels [to be greedily eaten];

They go down into the innermost chambers of the body [to be remembered and mused upon].

“Draw me away with you and let us run together!

Let the king bring me into his chambers.”

[fn](The Chorus)

“We will rejoice and be glad in you;

We will remember and extol your love more [sweet and fragrant] than wine.

Rightly do they love you.”

“Scarcely had I passed them

When I found him whom my soul loves.

I held on to him and would not let him go

Until I had brought him to my mother’s house,

And into the chamber of her who conceived me.”

Come, my people, enter your chambers

And shut your doors behind you;

Hide for a little while

Until the [LORD’S] [fn]wrath is past.

Gather the people, sanctify the congregation,

Assemble the elders,

Gather the children and the nursing infants.

Let the bridegroom come out of his room

And the bride out of her bridal chamber. [No one is excused from the assembly.]