Lexical Definition

‎חָדַר‎ châdar (khaw-dar') to surround ^H:V
a primitive root

enter a privy chamber.

• properly, to inclose (as a room), i.e. (by analogy,) to beset (as in a siege)

1) (Qal) to encompass, surround, enclose

See Greek: ἐξίστημι

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎חָדַר‎] verb surround, enclose (Phoenician in derivatives; Arabic II. conceal, curtain concealing a person, chamber, house, or tent as concealing some one; Ethiopic dwell; see also following) **Phoenician is only ‎חדר‎, ‎חדרת‎ (temple or sepulchral) chamber (Lzb²⁷¹ Cooke¹²⁶); Ezek 21:19* is best explained from Syriac go about, surround, Syriac around. It seems uncertain whether ‎חֶדֶר‎, Phoenician ‎חדר‎ chamber, Arabic curtain, chamber, tent, etc., are (ultimately) from this √ (as something surrounding); or (Buhl) from II. ‎חדר‎ = II. conceal behind curtain, conceal, confine, IV. conceal oneself, also abide, stay, remain behind (Land^{707 f.}), Ethiopic abide, dwell (Driver, privately, Nov. 1905). — only Qal Participle feminine singular ‎הַחֹדֶ֫רֶת לָהֶם‎ Ezek 21:19* that which surroundeth them (of the sword), — so ᵑ6 Thes Sm Co Da VB.

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