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Parlour

(from the Fr. parler, "to speak") denotes an "audience chamber," but that is not the import of the Hebrew word so rendered. This unified study connects 4 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H2315, H5944
Hebrew
חֶדֶר · cheder

Strong’s and original-language information

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

חֶדֶר

H2315
Transliteration
cheder
Pronunciation
kheh'-der
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
38

Glosses

((bed) inner) chamber, innermost(-ward) part, parlour, [phrase] south, [idiom] within.

Lexicon definition

an apartment (usually literal)

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

עֲלִיָּה

H5944
Transliteration
ʻălîyâh
Pronunciation
al-ee-yaw'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
20

Glosses

ascent, (upper) chamber, going up, loft, parlour.

Lexicon definition

something lofty, i.e. a stair-way

also a second-story room (or even one on the roof)

figuratively, the sky

Greek lexical coverage

No safely matched Greek Strong’s entry

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Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Parlour

(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 Judg. 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 Chr. 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 Sam. 9:22 the Revised Version reads "guest chamber," a chamber at the high place specially used for sacrificial feasts.

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Parlour

(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 Judg. 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 Chr. 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 Sam. 9:22 the Revised Version reads "guest chamber," a chamber at the high place specially used for sacrificial feasts.

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1 Kings 1

1 Kings 6:5

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