CLOSET . The Gr. word so rendered in NT properly denotes ‘a store-chamber’ as Luke 12:24 RV [Note: Revised Version.] , then any inner or more private room as opposed to the living-room; so Matthew 6:6 , Luke 12:3 RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘inner-chamber.’ Cf. 1 Kings 20:30; 1 Kings 22:25 , lit. ‘a chamber within a chamber,’ and House, § 2 . For Joel 2:16 see Driver, Joel and Amos, in loc .
A. R. S. Kennedy.