Lexicon chadar: to surround, enclose Original Word: חָדַרPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: chadar Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-dar') Short Definition: surrounds NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto surround, enclose NASB Translationsurrounds (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ חָדַר] verb surround, enclose (Phoenician in derivatives; Arabic  II. conceal,  curtain concealing a person, chamber, house, or tent as concealing some one; Ethiopic  dwell; see also following) **Phoenician is only חדר, חדרת (temple or sepulchral) chamber (Lzb 271 Cooke 126); Ezekiel 21:19 is best explained from Syriac  go about, surround, Syriac around. It seems uncertain whether חֶדֶר, Phoenician חדר chamber, Arabic  curtain, chamber, tent, etc., are (ultimately) from this √ (as something surrounding); or (Buhl) from II. חדר =  II. conceal behind curtain, conceal, confine, IV. conceal oneself, also abide, stay, remain behind (Land 707f.), Ethiopic  abide, dwell (Driver, privately, Nov. 1905). — only Qal Participle feminine singular הַחֹדֶ֫רֶת לָהֶם Ezekiel 21:19 that which surroundeth them (of the sword), — so ᵑ6 Thes Sm Co Da VB.
Strong's enter a privy chamber A primitive root; properly, to inclose (as a room), i.e. (by analogy,) to beset (as in a siege) -- enter a privy chamber. |
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