Lexical Definition

‎דֶּלֶת‎ deleth (deh'-leth) door ^H:N-M
from ‎דָּלָה‎

door (two-leaved), gate, leaf, lid. (Psalm 141:3).

• something swinging, i.e. the valve of adoor

1) door, gate
1a) a door
1b) a gate
1c) (fig.)
1c1) of chest lid
1c2) of crocodile jaws
1c3) of doors of the heavens
1c4) of an easily-accessible woman

See Greek: θύρα · πύλη · σανίς

Extended Information

• door (fig.)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎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 (? masculine^{Neh 13:19}) door (Late Hebrew id.; Assyrian daltu(m) Strm^{Av 1843} Schr^{COT Gloss}; Phoenician plural ‎דלהת‎ CIS^{i. 7. 3}; — according to Ba^{ZMG 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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