Chamber
חֶ֫דֶרStrong’s H2315cheder (che-der)
Appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Cheder is the Hebrew word usually translated “chamber of”, “chambers of” and “room”. It appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.”
Meaning
- Chamber, room, parlour, innermost or inward part, within
How it's translated
- in chamber of 5
- chambers of 5
- a room 4
- in a room 4
- the chamber towards 2
- in the chamber 2
- the chamber 2
- in rooms of 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 6
- Judges 4
- 1 Kings 3
- 2 Kings 3
- 2 Samuel 2
- 2 Chronicles 2
17 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 8:3And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:
- Deuteronomy 32:25The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
- Judges 3:24When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
- Judges 15:1But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.
- Judges 16:9Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.
- Judges 16:12Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.
All 33 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
חֶ֫דֶר cheder · chamber
chamber, room, parlour, innermost or inward part, within
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “chamber” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CHAMBER, verb intransitive
- To reside in or occupy as a chamber
- To be wanton; to indulge in lewd or immodest behavior.
All definitions and other forms of “chamber”
CHAMBER, verb transitive
To shut up as in a chamber
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.