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Strong's #1817 - דֶּלֶת
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1) door, gate
1a) a door
1b) a gate
1c) (figuratively)
1c1) of chest lid
1c2) of crocodile jaws
1c3) of doors of the heavens
1c4) of an easily-accessible woman
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1081) ld (דל DL) AC: Back and Forth CO: Door AB: ?: The pictograph d is a door. The l is a picture of staff and represents any rod. Combined these pictures mean "the door on the rod". The tent door was hung down as a curtain, covering the entrance to the tent, from a horizontal pole. The door was then moved to the side for going in and out of the tent. (eng: door - an exchange for the d and l)
A) ld (דל DL) AC: ? CO: Door AB: Poor: Any object that dangles such as a bucket that is hung from a rope down a well to retrieve water. The hair hangs from the head. A poor or weak person hangs the head in poverty.
Nm) ld (דל DL) - Weak: One who dangles the head in poverty or hunger. KJV (48): poor, needy, weak, lean - Strongs: H1800 (דַּל)
Nf1) eld (דלה DLH) - I. Poor:One who hangs head low in weakness. II. Hair:What hangs from the head and is easily blown by the wind. KJV (8): poor, pinning, sickness, hair - Strongs: H1803 (דַּלָּה)
Nf2) tld (דלת DLT) - Door: KJV (88): door, gate, leaves, lid - Strongs: H1817 (דֶּלֶת)
B) lld (דלל DLL) AC: Hang CO: ? AB: ?
V) lld (דלל DLL) - Brought low: To be brought down low such as the head in humility or a dried up river. KJV (9): (vf: Paal, Niphal) brought low, dried up, not equal, emptied, fail, impoverished, thin - Strongs: H1809 (דָּלַל)
H) eld (דלה DLH) AC: Lift CO: ? AB: ?: Anything that dangles down and swings back and forth, such as a branch, hair or door.
V) eld (דלה DLH) - Lift: The lifting of the bucket out of the well for drawing water. KJV (5): (vf: Paal, Piel) draw, enough, lifted - Strongs: H1802 (דָּלָה)
bf1) eild (דליה DLYH) - Branch: Dangles from a tree blowing back and forth in the wind. KJV (8): branch - Strongs: H1808 (דָּלִית)
fm) ild (דלי DLY) - Bucket: Dangles from a rope to draw water and lifted out of the well. KJV (2): bucket - Strongs: H1805 (דֳּלִי)
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Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
[דָּל] noun [masculine] door (Phoenician דל) only figurative: construct דַּל שָׂפָתָ֑י Psalm 141:3.
[דָּלָה] noun feminine door, only Qr דְּלָתְךָ (Kt דלתיך) Isaiah 26:20 figurative, door of chamber in which people (personified) hides (compare also דֶּלֶת dual)
דֶּ֫לֶת noun feminine (? masculine Nehemiah 13:19) door (Late Hebrew id.; Assyrian daltu(m) Strm Av 1843 Schr COT Gloss; Phoenician plural דלהת CIS i. 7. 3; — according to Ba ZMG 1887,607 from √ ידל, Assyrian edilu, to bolt, bar) — דֶּלֶת (always absolute, and with article except Song of Solomon 8:9 + Ezekiel 41:24 but here Co article) Genesis 19:10 18t.; דָּ֑לֶת Genesis 19:9; Judges 19:22; suffix דַּלְתּוֺ 2 Kings 12:10; Du. דְּלָתַיִם (compare Sta§ 187 a) Deuteronomy 3:5 9t., דְּתָ֑יִם Job 38:10; construct דַּלְתֵי Joshua 2:19 6t. + 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 10t.; construct דַּלְתוֺת Judges 3:23 19t. + 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 מֶּתַח 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 (3t. 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 (5t. 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, Song of Solomon 8:9; in simile Proverbs 26:14; of Jerusalem as gate of people Ezekiel 26:2; of Lebanon Zechariah 11:1.
דֶּלֶת feminine, (compare masculine ἅπαξ λεγόμ. דַּל No. I, root דָּלָה), the leaf of a door, so called from its hanging and swinging (see the root); hence the door itself as hanging on its hinges, Proverbs 26:14, which is shut or opened, Genesis 19:10; 2 Kings 4:4, 9:3 knocked at, Judges 19:22. It differs from פֶּתַה, which denotes the doorway which the door closes. When two-leaved doors are spoken of, the dual is commonly used (which see), but the singular is also used to express both leaves, see 1 Kings 6:34, שְׁנֵי צְלָעִים הַדֶּלֶת הָאַחַת גְּלִילִים “the two leaves of the one door were folding.” Without much strictness of use, Ezekiel 41:24 דֶּלֶת is put both for the leaves singly, and also for the whole door, וּשְׁתַּיִם דְּלָתוֹת לַדְּלָתוֹת שְׁתַּיִם מוּסַבּוֹת דְּלָתוֹת שְׁתַּיִם לְדֶלֶת אֶחָת וּשְׁתֵּי דְלָתוֹת לָאַחֶרֶת “there (were) two leaves to each of the doors, both were folding, two leaves to the former door, two leaves to the latter.” Used of the covering of the ark, 2 Kings 12:10.-Metaph. Song of Solomon 8:9, “if she (our sister) be a door,” if she be easy of access.
Dual דָּלָתַיִם const. דַּלְתֵי (pr. from the form דָּלָה) two-leaved doors, folding doors; especially large ones, such as the gates of a city. Deuteronomy 3:5; 1 Samuel 23:7; Isaiah 45:1; Jeremiah 49:31. Metaph. the doors of heaven which let down the rain (elsewhere אֲרֻבּוֹת), Psalms 78:23. Job 3:10, דַּלְתֵי בִטְנִי “the doors of the womb (that bare) me.” Job 41:6, דַּלְתֵי פָנֵיו “the doors of his face” (the jaws of a crocodile). Job 38:8, “he has shut up the sea with doors;” comp. verse 10 Job 38:10.
Pl. דְּלָתוֹת const. דַּלְתוֹת f. (but Nehemiah 13:19 masc.).
(1) leaves of a door, gates, 1 Kings 6:31; Ezekiel 41:24 (see the sing.), hence
(2) the doorway or gate itself, -Judg. 3:2325 ; 19:27. Ezekiel 26:2, נִשְׁבְּרָה דַלְתוֹת הָעַמִּים “the gate of the people (Jerusalem) is broken.”
(3) the columns of a book, so called from the resemblance to a door, just as in Latin columna from the resemblance to a column, Jeremiah 36:23. Others understand chapters of a book, like the Rabbinic שַׁעַר.
I. רָּם m., const. דַּם, with suffix דָּמוֹ, דִּמְכֶם (Genesis 9:5).
(1) blood (prob. for אֲדָם from the root אָדַם, to be red, whence Talmud. אֲדַם, אִדַּם, אִידְּמָא, Pun. Edom according to Augustine on Psa 136:1-26. Arabic دَمُ, rarely دَمُّ, whence a new verb دَمِىَ to emit blood, II. to wound). אָכַל עַל דָּם “to eat (flesh) with the blood.” 1 Samuel 14:32, 33 1 Samuel 14:33; Ezekiel 33:25 (contrary to the Mosaic law, Leviticus 17:11; Deuteronomy 12:23). דָּם נָקִי “innocent blood,” 2 Kings 21:16; Psalms 106:38 also used of an innocent person himself, Psalms 94:21, וְדָם נָקִי יַרְשִׁיעוּ “and they condemn the innocent blood;” also דַּם נָקִי blood of an innocent person. Deuteronomy 19:10, 13 Deuteronomy 19:13, 27:25 Jeremiah 19:4, 22:17. Figuratively
(2) blood is used specially for bloodshed, slaughter, Leviticus 19:16, and for guilt contracted by killing, Blutfchuld, Genesis 37:26 Levit. 17:4. Deuteronomy 17:8, בֵּין־דָּם לְרָם. Numbers 35:27, אֵין לוֹ דָם “he is not guilty of blood.”
(3) blood of the grape is used of wine, which in Palestine is red; compare αἷμα τῆς σταφυλῆς, Sir_39:26. Genesis 49:11; Deuteronomy 32:14.
Plur. דָּמִים
(1) blood, specially as shed, Isaiah 9:4. אִישׁ דָּמִים a bloody man, Psalms 5:7, 26:9 55:24.
(2) slaying, the guilt of slaughter. עִיר, בֵּית דָּמִים a house, a city guilty of slaughter, 2 Samuel 21:1; Ezekiel 22:2, 24:6. דָּמָיז בּוֹ Leviticus 20:9; Ezekiel 18:13. דְּמֵיהֶם בָּם Leviticus 20:11, seq., he is, they are, guilty of slaughter.
II. דָּם likeness (from דָּמָה). So perhaps in the doubtful passage, Ezekiel 19:10, “thy mother is like a vine,” בְּדָֽמְךָ, which Kimchi explains בִּדְמוּתְךָ “in thy likeness,” like thee. Compare also Targ. See more in Rosenm. on the passage. [“Calmet כְּגֶפֶן כַּרְמְךָ as a vine of thy vineyard.” This is only a conjecture.]
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