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דָּל,
דַּל noun door, see below
דלה. below
[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 (? masculineNehemiah 13:19) door (Late Hebrew id.; Assyrian daltu(m) StrmAv 1843 SchrCOT Gloss; Phoenician plural דלהת CISi. 7. 3; — according to BaZMG 1887, 607 from √ ידל, Assyrian edilu, to bolt, bar) — דֶּלֶת (always absolute, and with article except Songs 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, דַּלְתוֺתָיו2Chronicles 3:7; 4:22; דַּלְתֹתָיו Nehemiah 3:1,3,6,13,14,15; דַּלְתוֺתֵיהֶם2Chronicles 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 (3 t. in verse); 1 Kings 7:50; 2 Kings 18:16; 1 Chronicles 22:3; 2Chronicles 3:7; 4:22; 28:24; 29:3; Nehemiah 6:10; Malachi 1:10; so of Ezekiel's temple, Ezekiel 41:23,24 (5 t. 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; 2Chronicles 4:22 compare also Ezekiel 41:23; also of court עֲזָרָה2Chronicles 4:9 (twice in verse), and of porch אוּלָם2Chronicles 29:7.
3 gates of city Deuteronomy 3:5; Joshua 6:26 (compare 1 Kings 16:34) Judges 16:3; 1 Samuel 23:7; 2Chronicles 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, Songs 8:9; in simile Proverbs 26:14; of Jerusalem as gate of people Ezekiel 26:2; of Lebanon Zechariah 11:1.
