חֶדֶרcheder

chamber, room, room, chamber (1 Chronicles 28:11; 2 Samuel 13:10; Genesis 43:20; 1 Kings 1:15; Judges 15:1)

Pronunciation: kheh'-der · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2315

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 38 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 43:30 Then Joseph hurried from the room because he was overcome with emotion for his brother. He went into his private room, where he broke down and wept.
  • Exodus 8:3 The Nile River will swarm with frogs. They will come up out of the river and into your palace, even into your bedroom and onto your bed! They will enter the houses of your officials and your people. They will even jump into your ovens and your kneading bowls.
  • Deuteronomy 32:25 Outside, the sword will bring death, and inside, terror will strike both young men and young women, both infants and the aged.
  • Judges 3:24 After Ehud was gone, the king’s servants returned and found the doors to the upstairs room locked. They thought he might be using the latrine in the room,
  • Judges 15:1 Later on, during the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat as a present to his wife. He said, “I’m going into my wife’s room to sleep with her,” but her father wouldn’t let him in.
  • Judges 16:9 She had hidden some men in one of the inner rooms of her house, and she cried out, “Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!” But Samson snapped the bowstrings as a piece of string snaps when it is burned by a fire. So the secret of his strength was not discovered.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).