STRONGS NUMBER H2314


Word Summary
chadar: to surround, enclose
Original Word: חָדַר
Transliteration: 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 חדרchamber, 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 הַחֹדֶ֫רֶתEzekiel 21:19 that which surroundeth them (of the sword), — so ᵑ6‎ Thes Sm Co Da VB.