(from the Fr. parler, "to speak") denotes an "audience chamber," but that is not the import of the Hebrew word so rendered. It corresponds to what the Turks call a kiosk, as in Judges 3:20 (the "summer parlour"), or as in the margin of the Revised Version ("the upper chamber of cooling"), a small room built on the roof of the house, with open windows to catch the breeze, and having a door communicating with the outside by which persons seeking an audience may be admitted. While Eglon was resting in such a parlour, Ehud, under pretence of having a message from God to him, was admitted into his presence, and murderously plunged his dagger into his body (21, 22).

The "inner parlours" in 1 Chronicles 28:11 were the small rooms or chambers which Solomon built all round two sides and one end of the temple (1 Kings 6:5), "side chambers;" or they may have been, as some think, the porch and the holy place.

In 1 Samuel 9:22 the Revised Version reads "guest chamber," a chamber at the high place specially used for sacrificial feasts.

3957. lishkah -- room, chamber, hall, cell
... chamber, parlor. From an unused root of uncertain meaning; a room in a building
(whether for storage, eating, or lodging) -- chamber, parlour. Compare nishkah. ...
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5944. aliyyah -- a roof chamber
... something lofty, ie A stair-way; also a second-story room (or even one on the roof);
figuratively, the sky -- ascent, (upper) chamber, going up, loft, parlour. ...
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2315. cheder -- a chamber, room
... From chadar; an apartment (usually literal) -- ((bed) inner)chamber, innermost(-
ward) part, parlour, + south, X within. see HEBREW chadar. << 2314, 2315. ...
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