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Lexicon :: Strong's H1817 - deleṯ

Aa
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 89 times in 78 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 19:6–Neh 6:10)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:6 - And Lot went out to them to the porch, and he shut the door after him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9 - And they said to him, Stand back there, thou camest in to sojourn, was it also to judge? Now then we would harm thee more than them. And they pressed hard on the man, even Lot, and they drew nigh to break the door.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:10 - And the men stretched forth their hands and drew Lot in to them into the house, and shut the door of the house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:6 - his master shall bring him to the judgment-seat of God, and then shall he bring him to the door,—to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:5 - all strong cities, lofty walls, gates and bars; besides the very many cities of the Pherezites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:17 - then thou shalt take an awl, and bore his ear through to the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever; and in like manner shalt thou do to thy maid-servant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:19 - And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall go outside the door of thy house, his guilt shall be upon him, and we shall be quit of this thine oath; and we will be responsible for all that shall be found with thee in thy house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:26 - And Joshua adjured them on that day before the Lord, saying, Cursed be the man who shall build that city: he shall lay the foundation of it in his first-born, and he shall set up the gates of it in his youngest son. And so did Hozan of Bæthel; he laid the foundation in Abiron his first-born, and set up the gates of it in his youngest [fn]surviving son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:23 - And Aod went out to the porch, and passed out by the appointed guards, and shut the doors of the chamber upon him, and locked them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:24 - And he went out: and [fn]Eglom's servants came, and saw, and behold, the doors of the upper chamber were locked; and they said, Does he not uncover his feet in the summer-chamber?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:25 - And they waited till they were ashamed, and, behold, there [fn]was no one that opened the doors of the upper chamber; and they took the key, and opened them; and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead upon the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:31 - then it shall come to pass that whosoever shall first come out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, he shall be the Lord's: I will offer him up for a whole-burnt-offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:3 - And Sampson slept till midnight, and rose up at midnight, and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city with the two posts, and lifted them up with the bar, and laid them on his shoulders, and he went up to the top of the mountain that is before Chebron, and laid them there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:22 - And they were comforting their heart, when, behold, the men of the city, sons of transgressors, compassed the house, knocking at the door: and they spoke to the old man the owner of the house, saying, Bring out the man who came into thy house, that we may know him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:27 - And her husband rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went forth to go on his journey; and, behold, the woman his concubine had fallen down by the doors of the house, and her hands were on the threshold.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:15 - And Samuel [fn]slept till morning, and rose early in the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the Lord; and Samuel feared to tell Heli the vision.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:13 - (LXX 21:14) And he changed his appearance before him, and feigned himself a false character in that day; and drummed upon the doors of the city, and used extravagant gestures with his hands, and fell against the doors of the gate, and his spittle ran down upon his beard.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:7 - And it was told Saul that David was come to Keila: and Saul said, God has sold him into my hands, for he is shut up, having entered into a city that has gates and bars.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:17 - And he called his servant who had charge of the house, and said to him, Put now this woman out from me, and shut the door after her.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:18 - And she had on her a variegated robe, for so were the king's daughters that were virgins attired in their apparel: and his servant led her forth, and shut the door after her.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:31 - And for the door-way of the oracle he made doors of juniper wood, there were porches in a four-fold way.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:34 - In both the doors were planks of fir; the one door had two leaves and their hinges, and the other door had two leaves and turned on hinges,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:50 - (LXX 7:36) And there were made the [fn]porches, and the nails, and the bowls, and the spoons, and the golden censers, [fn]of pure gold: and the panels of the doors of the innermost part of the house, even the holy of holies, and the golden doors of the temple.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:34 - And in his days Achiel the Bæthelite built Jericho: he laid the foundation of it in Abiron his first-born, and he set up the doors of it in Segub his younger son, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by Joshua the son of Naue.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:4 - And thou shalt go in and shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and thou shalt pour forth into these vessels, and remove that which is filled.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:5 - And she departed from him, and shut the door upon herself and upon her sons: they brought the vessels near to her, and she poured in until the vessels were filled.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:33 - And Elisaie went into the house, and shut the door upon themselves, the two, and prayed to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:32 - And Elisaie was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him; and the king sent a man before him: before the messenger came to him, he also said to the elders, Do ye see that this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? See, as soon as the messenger shall have come, shut the door, and forcibly detain him at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:3 - And thou shalt take the cruse of oil, and pour it on his head, and say thou, Thus saith the Lord, I have anointed thee king over Israel: and thou shalt open the door, and flee, and not tarry.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:10 - And the dogs shall eat Jezabel in the portion of Jezreel, and [fn]there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:9 - (LXX 12:10) And Jodae the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it by the [fn]altar in the house of a man belonging to the house of the Lord, and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was found in the house of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:16 - At that time Ezekias cut off the gold from the doors of the temple, and from the pillars which Ezekias king of Juda had overlaid with gold, and gave [fn]it to the king of the Assyrians.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:3 - And David prepared much iron for the nails of the doors and the gates; the hinges also and brass in abundance, there was no weighing of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:7 - And he gilded the house, and its inner walls, and the door-posts, and the roofs, and the doors with gold; and he carved cherubs on the walls.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:9 - Also he made the priests' court, and the great court, and doors to the court, and their panels were overlaid with brass.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:22 - And there was the inner door of the house opening into the holy of holies, and he made the inner doors of the temple of gold. So all the work which Solomon wrought for the house of the Lord was finished.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:5 - And he built Bæthoron the upper, and Bæthoron the lower, strong cities,—they had walls, gates, and bars;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:7 - (LXX 14:6) And he said to Juda, Let us fortify these cities, and make walls, and towers, and gates, and bars: we shall prevail over the land, for as we have sought out the Lord our God, he has sought out us, and has given us rest round about, and prospered us.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:24 - And Achaz removed the vessels of the house of the Lord, and cut them in pieces, and shut the doors of the house of the Lord, and made to himself altars in every corner in Jerusalem:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:3 - And it came to pass, when he was established over his kingdom, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:7 - And they have shut up the doors of the temple, and put out the lamps, and have not burnt incense, and have not offered whole-burnt-offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:1 - Then Eliasub the high priest, and his brethren the priests, rose up, and built the sheep-gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even to the tower of the hundred they sanctified it, to the tower of Anameel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:3 - And the sons of Asana built the fish-gate; they roofed it, and covered in its doors, and bolts, and bars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:6 - And Joida the son of Phasec, and Mesulam son of Basodia, repaired the old gate; they covered it in, and set up its doors, and its bolts, and its bars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:13 - Anun and the inhabitants of Zano repaired the gate of the valley: they built it, and set up its doors, and its bolts, and its bars, and a thousand cubits of the wall as far as the dung-gate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:14 - And Melchia the son of Rechab, the ruler of the district round about Beth-accharim, repaired the dung-gate, he and his sons; and they covered it, and set up its doors, and its bolts, and its bars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:15 - But Solomon the son of Choleze repaired the gate of the fountain, the ruler of part of Maspha; he built it, and covered it, and set up its doors and its bars, and the wall of the pool of the skins by the meadow of the king, and as far as the steps that lead down from the city of David.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:1 - Now it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and Gesam the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had built the wall, and that there was no opening left therein; (but hitherto I had not set up the doors on the gates;)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:10 - And I came into the house of Semei the son of Dalaia the Son of Metabeel, and he was shut up; and he said, Let us assemble together in the house of God, in the midst of it, and let us shut the doors of it; for they are coming by night to slay thee.

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