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# חֶדֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2315

**chamber** — used 38 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

chamber [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2315/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֶ֫דֶר: n.m. chamber, room [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2315/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 1 Ch 28:11 chamber, room (NH id.; Ph. חדר, חדרת; Sab. חֿדר MordtZMG, 1876, 24; Ethiopic ማኅደር ማኅደር is not ‘chamber’, but (from √ ኀደረ dwell) dwelling-place, abode, tent.) abs. חֶדֶר 2 S 13:10 + 11 times; הַחַ֫דְרָה Gn 43:30 1 K 1:15; הֶחָ֑דְרָה Ju 15:1 2 S 13:10; cstr. חֶ֫דֶר Ct 3:4; חֲדַר Ex 7:28 + 5 times; sf. חֶדְרוֹ Jo 2:16; pl. חֲדָרִים Dt 32:25 Pr 24:4; Pr 24:4; cstr. חַדְרֵי Pr 7:27 + 8 times; sf. חֲדָרֶיךָ Is 26:20; חֲדָרָיו Ct 1:4 1 Ch 28:11;—room, chamber, usually private, as bedroom Gn 43:30 (J), Ju 15:1; 16:9, 12 2 S 13:10(×2) 1 K 1:15 Ct 1:4 Is 26:20; Ju 14:18 read prob. הַחַדְרָה bridal-chamber for הַחַרְסָה StaZAW 1884, 253, cf. Jo 2:16 (‖ חֻפָּתָהּ of bride), ח׳ הוֹרָתִי Ct 3:4 (‖ בֵּית אִמִּי); of kings (of Egypt) ψ 105:30; specif.: ח׳ מִשְׁכָּב bed-chamber Ex 7:28 (J), 2 S 4:7 2 K 6:12 Ec 10:20; other combinations:—ח׳ הַמְּקֵרָה Ju 3:24 = cool chamber; ח׳ הַפְּנִימִים 1 Ch 28:11 inner chamber; חדרי מַשְׂבִּיתוֹ Ez 8:12 his chambers of imagery (del. Hi Co Sgfr.); ח׳ בְּח׳ a chamber within a chamber, i.e. an innermost chamber 1 K 20:30; 22:25 = 2 Ch 18:24, 2 K 9:2; pl. = store-rooms Pr 24:4; so ח׳ הַמִּטּוֹת 2 K 11:2 = 2 Ch 22:11, i.e. room where beds were stored (Ke Th); metaph. ח׳ מָ֑וֶת Pr 7:27 (‖ דַּרְכֵי שְׁאוֹל); חדרי תֵּמָן Jb 9:9 chambers of south (where constellations are treasured up, v. Di; Hoffm. thinks of n.pr. of star or constell.); cf. Jb 37:9 a chamber whence comes storm-wind (סוּפָה); חַדְרֵי בֶטֶן i.e. inner parts of body, only fig. Pr 18:8 = 26:22, 20:27, 30; in Dt 32:25 מֵחֲדָרִים = within, poet. for מִבַּיִת, ‖ מִחוּץ without.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 33 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a room (8); the chamber (6); \[the\] chambers (5).

## In the verses

[Job 9:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.9/#tree)

עֹֽשֶׂה־עָ֭שׁ כְּסִ֥יל וְכִימָ֗ה וְחַדְרֵ֥י תֵמָֽן׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].makes \[the\].Bear Orion and Pleiades and.\[the\] chambers of.\[the\].south

*JPS 1917:* Who maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

[Psalms 105:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.30/#tree)

שָׁרַ֣ץ אַרְצָ֣ם צְפַרְדְּעִ֑ים בְּ֝חַדְרֵ֗י מַלְכֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* it.swarmed land their frogs in the.rooms their.kings their

*JPS 1917:* Their land swarmed with frogs, in the chambers of their kings.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2315.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2315/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).