H1817C Hebrew

דֶּ֫לֶת

de.let

door

Lexicon Entry

Definition

door

Transliteration

de.let

Strong's Number

H1817C

Occurrences

Semantic Domain

Construction & Crafts

Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

# Analysis of דֶּלֶת (delet) — "Door" The Hebrew word *delet* appears 86 times throughout the biblical text and carries the straightforward meaning of "door." This frequency of occurrence indicates that doors held sufficient importance in ancient Israelite life and writing to merit consistent vocabulary. The term functioned as a fundamental architectural term in Hebrew, referring to the physical barrier that controlled access to enclosed spaces—whether residential, public, or sacred structures. The substantial number of occurrences suggests that doors served not merely as utilitarian fixtures but as objects worthy of repeated mention in biblical narratives and descriptions. References to doors would naturally appear in accounts of homes, temples, gates, and fortifications, reflecting the practical role that doors played in daily life, security, and the organization of sacred space. The consistency with which this single term was used indicates it was the standard Hebrew vocabulary for this common household and architectural element. The presence of *delet* in 86 biblical passages demonstrates that doors functioned as more than simple physical objects in the biblical worldview—they marked boundaries, controlled access, and served symbolic functions in narrative contexts. The word's regular appearance in descriptions of temple construction, domestic settings, and fortifications underscores that doors were integral to how ancient Israelites organized and understood their physical environment.

Source data & methodology

Strong's: H1817C
Lemma: דֶּ֫לֶת
Transliteration: de.let
Definition: door
Occurrences: 86
Model: claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
Prompt version: 1

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Occurrences in Scripture

86 total occurrences across the text — showing 50

2 Chronicles 28:24

Ahaz gathered together the vessels of God’s house, and cut the vessels of God’s house in pieces, and shut up the doors of Yahweh’s house; and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 29:3

In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of Yahweh’s house, and repaired them.

2 Chronicles 29:7

Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.

Genesis 19:6

Lot went out to them through the door, and shut the door after himself.

Nehemiah 13:19

It came to pass that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. I set some of my servants over the gates, so that no burden should be brought in on the Sabbath day.

Nehemiah 3:1

Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate. They sanctified it, and set up its doors. They sanctified it even to the tower of Hammeah, to the tower of Hananel.

Nehemiah 3:3

The sons of Hassenaah built the fish gate. They laid its beams, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

Nehemiah 3:6

Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah repaired the old gate. They laid its beams, and set up its doors, and its bolts, and its bars.

Nehemiah 3:13

Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the valley gate. They built it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and one thousand cubits of the wall to the dung gate.

Nehemiah 3:14

Malchijah the son of Rechab, the ruler of the district of Beth Haccherem repaired the dung gate. He built it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

Nehemiah 3:15

Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah repaired the spring gate. He built it, and covered it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king’s garden, even to the stairs that go down from David’s city.

Nehemiah 6:1

Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates)

Nehemiah 6:10

I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, “Let us meet together in God’s house, within the temple, and let’s shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to kill you. Yes, in the night they will come to kill you.”

Nehemiah 7:1

Now when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers and the singers and the Levites were appointed,

Nehemiah 7:3

I said to them, “Don’t let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house.”

Job 3:10

because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

Job 31:32

(the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

Job 38:8

“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,

Job 38:10

marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,

Job 41:14

Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.

Psalms 78:23

Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.

Psalms 107:16

For he has broken the gates of bronze, and cut through bars of iron.

Proverbs 8:34

Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.

Proverbs 26:14

As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed.

Ecclesiastes 12:4

and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;

Song of Solomon 8:9

If she is a wall, we will build on her a turret of silver. If she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.

Isaiah 45:1

Yahweh says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:

Isaiah 45:2

“I will go before you and make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of bronze in pieces and cut apart the bars of iron.

Isaiah 57:8

You have set up your memorial behind the doors and the posts, for you have exposed yourself to someone besides me, and have gone up. You have enlarged your bed and made you a covenant with them. You loved what you saw on their bed.

Jeremiah 36:23

When Jehudi had read three or four leaves, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

Jeremiah 49:31

Arise! Go up to a nation that is at ease, that dwells without care,” says Yahweh; “that has neither gates nor bars, that dwells alone.

Ezekiel 26:2

“Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, ‘Aha! She is broken! She who was the gateway of the peoples has been returned to me. I will be replenished, now that she is laid waste;’

Ezekiel 38:11

You will say, ‘I will go up to the land of unwalled villages. I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

Ezekiel 41:23

The temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

Ezekiel 41:24