chamber
che.der denotes an interior room or set of rooms, and can mark hidden inward or natural/cosmic quarters.
The term most often denotes an interior or secluded room within a house, palace, or larger structure, including rooms entered for privacy, concealment, or residence. Plural construct forms also occur for inward places associated with the belly or death, while Job uses it in clauses concerning the south and the source of a whirlwind.
Senses in use
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Interior or private rooms · dominant
Singular absolute forms occur in movements into or between enclosed rooms: in 1 Kings 22:25 the APB renders the warning about going “from chamber to chamber to hide,” and in Genesis 43:30 it renders Joseph's entry into a room to weep. Construct and plural forms likewise identify rooms within larger settings, as in 1 Chronicles 28:11's “inner chambers” and Isaiah 26:20's chambers whose doors are shut for hiding.
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Inward places in figurative descriptions · occasional
Plural construct forms are attached to “the belly” in Proverbs 18:8, Proverbs 20:27, and Proverbs 20:30; the APB renders these clauses as words, searching, or blows reaching “the inner chambers of the belly.” In Proverbs 7:27, the same plural construct form occurs in the descent to “the chambers of death.”
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Natural or cosmic quarters · rare
Job 37:9 uses a singular absolute form in the clause the APB renders “From the chamber comes a whirlwind.” Job 9:9 has a plural construct form in the list that includes “the chambers of the south,” so the precise contribution is less isolated by the translation.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term with “chamber,” “inner chamber,” or “chambers,” and also uses “bedchamber” and “bedroom” in particular settings. In the Job clauses it renders “chamber” and “chambers of the south”; these are verse-level renderings rather than definitions.