Lexicon
דֶּ֫לֶת
de.let
H1817C
H:N-M/F Hebrew

door

86
Occurrences
22
Books
Hebrew
Language

de.let denotes a door or set of doors: an entrance that can be opened, shut, barred, or fitted into a house, temple, or city.

The term most often names physical doors or paired door panels belonging to houses, temple spaces, enclosures, and fortified cities, especially where they are opened, shut, locked, barred, or decorated. A smaller group extends this entrance-and-boundary imagery to the womb, “peoples,” and doors opened before rulers.

Senses in use

  1. Physical entrance doors and panels · dominant

    Plural construct forms identify doors belonging to temple spaces in 1 Kings 6:31 and 1 Kings 7:50, while 1 Samuel 23:7 places a dual form with a city and bar. Singular absolute forms occur where an entrance is shut or opened: in 2 Kings 4:4 the APB renders the instruction, “shut the door behind you and behind your sons,” and in 2 Kings 6:32 it renders both shutting the door and pressing someone “at the door.”

  2. Extended imagery of openings or boundaries · rare

    In Job 3:10, a dual construct form occurs in the clause about “the doors of my womb,” applying entrance language to the womb. In Ezekiel 26:2, the plural construct form occurs in Tyre's statement about “the doors of the peoples,” while Isaiah 45:1 uses a dual absolute form in the clause about doors opened before Cyrus.

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the cited clauses, the APB commonly presents the term with “door” or “doors,” including doors that are opened, shut, locked, or paired with a bar. In the extended passages it retains expressions such as “doors of my womb” and “doors of the peoples”; these are verse-level renderings rather than word-by-word alignment.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture