דֶּ֫לֶת noun feminine (? masculine[Neh 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 [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 v[1Sam 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 v[Isa 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].
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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