Lexical Summary chadar: to surround, enclose Original Word: חָדַרTransliteration: chadar Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-dar') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to surround, enclose Meaning: to inclose, to beset Strong's Concordance 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. Brown-Driver-Briggs H2314. chadar [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 חדרת חדר, (temple or sepulchral) chamber (Lzb271 Cooke126); 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 (Land707f.), Ethiopic abide, dwell (Driver, privately, Nov. 1905). — only Qal Participle feminine singular לָהֶם הַחֹדֶ֫רֶת Ezekiel 21:19 that which surroundeth them (of the sword), — so ᵑ6 Thes Sm Co Da VB. |
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