דֶּלֶת
deleth · deh'-leth
something swinging, i.e. the valve of adoor
Lexicon
Derivation: from H1802 (דָּלָה);
something swinging, i.e. the valve of adoor
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: door (two-leaved), gate, leaf, lid. (Psalm 141:3).
Letters
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › authority, the one who leads › the mark, the covenant sign
The doorway, the way in of authority, the one who leads of the mark, the covenant sign.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דֶּלֶת above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
88 occurrences · 88 OT · 0 NT · 60 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the doors23 · 30%
- the door11 · 14%
- doors5 · 7%
- the gates4 · 5%
- leaves4 · 5%
- gates3 · 4%
- door3 · 4%
- of the doors2 · 3%
- at the door2 · 3%
- and doors2 · 3%
- and the doors2 · 3%
- thy doors2 · 3%
- to the door1 · 1%
- him to the door1 · 1%
- unto the door1 · 1%
- that, behold, the doors1 · 1%
- not the doors1 · 1%
- on the doors1 · 1%
- that hath gates1 · 1%
- both for the doors1 · 1%
- place, and for the doors1 · 1%
- in the lid1 · 1%
- the gold from the doors1 · 1%
- for the doors1 · 1%
- thereof, and the doors1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.