חֶ֫דֶר
chamber
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
20 distinct verses where H2315 appears in the Construct state, across 14 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus 1 verse
Judges 1 verse
2 Samuel 1 verse
2 Kings 2 verses
- 2 Kings 6:12 בַּ/חֲדַ֥ר prep + n c ms cs One of his servants said, No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedchamber.
- 2 Kings 11:2 בַּ/חֲדַ֣ר prep + n c ms cs But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, [and put them] in the bedchamber; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain;
1 Chronicles 1 verse
2 Chronicles 1 verse
Job 1 verse
Psalms 1 verse
Proverbs 5 verses
- Proverbs 7:27 חַדְרֵי n c mp cs Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.
- Proverbs 18:8 חַדְרֵי n c mp cs The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: They go down into a person's innermost parts.
- Proverbs 20:27 חַדְרֵי n c mp cs The spirit of man is Yahweh's lamp, Searching all his innermost parts.
- Proverbs 20:30 חַדְרֵי n c mp cs Wounding blows cleanse away evil, And beatings purge the innermost parts.
- Proverbs 26:22 חַדְרֵי n c mp cs The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, They go down into the innermost parts.
Ecclesiastes 1 verse
Song of Solomon 2 verses
- Song of Solomon 1:4 חֲדָרָ֗י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Take me away with you. Let us hurry. The king has brought me into his chambers. Friends We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! Beloved They are right to love you.
- Song of Solomon 3:4 חֶ֖דֶר n c ms cs I had scarcely passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother's house, Into the chamber of her who conceived me.
Isaiah 1 verse
Ezekiel 1 verse
Joel 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
חדר — transliterated cheder — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “chamber.” Where the King James Version says “chamber,” newer translations reach for “bedroom” (Berean Standard Bible); the renderings breakdown has the detail. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 33 verses — moderately common. Debuting at Genesis 43:30, it then recurs through the corpus. It shares a root with חדר and חדר. See the sense tree, 33-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2315 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 33
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 33 distinct verses.
- 17 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 17 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #947
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 947 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 33 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 33 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 15 verses · 45%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 15 verses · 45%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 verses · 9%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Chamber 14×, Bedchamber 6×, Chambers 5×
- American Standard Version: Chamber 12×, Bedchamber 5×, Chambers 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Bedroom 7×, Room 7×, Chambers 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Chamber 11×, Room of 6×, Rooms 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2315 across 38 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2315 across 40 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2315 across 35 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2315 across 39 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- chamber, room, parlour, innermost or inward part, within
Word origin
n.m. 1 Ch 28:11 chamber, room (NH id.; Ph. חדר, חדרת; Sab. חֿדר MordtZMG, 1876, 24; Ethiopic ማኅደር ማኅደር is not ‘chamber’, but (from √ ኀደረ dwell) dwelling-place, abode, tent.) abs. חֶדֶר 2 S 13:10 + 11 times; הַחַ֫דְרָה Gn 43:30 1 K 1:15; הֶחָ֑דְרָה Ju 15:1 2 S 13:10; cstr. חֶ֫דֶר Ct 3:4; חֲדַר Ex 7:28 + 5 times; sf. חֶדְרוֹ Jo 2:16; pl. חֲדָרִים Dt 32:25 Pr 24:4; Pr 24:4; cstr. חַדְרֵי Pr 7:27 + 8 times; sf. חֲדָרֶיךָ Is 26:20; חֲדָרָיו Ct 1:4 1 Ch 28:11;—room, chamber, usually private, as bedroom Gn 43:30 (J), Ju 15:1; 16:9, 12 2 S 13:10(×2) 1 K 1:15 Ct 1:4 Is 26:20; Ju 14:18 read prob. הַחַדְרָה bridal-chamber for הַחַרְסָה StaZAW 1884, 253, cf. Jo 2:16 (‖ חֻפָּתָהּ of bride), ח׳ הוֹרָתִי Ct 3:4 (‖ בֵּית אִמִּי); of kings (of Egypt) ψ 105:30; specif.: ח׳ מִשְׁכָּב bed-chamber Ex 7:28 (J), 2 S 4:7 2 K 6:12 Ec 10:20; other combinations:—ח׳ הַמְּקֵרָה Ju 3:24 = cool chamber; ח׳ הַפְּנִימִים 1 Ch 28:11 inner chamber; חדרי מַשְׂבִּיתוֹ Ez 8:12 his chambers of imagery (del. Hi Co Sgfr.); ח׳ בְּח׳ a chamber within a chamber, i.e. an innermost chamber 1 K 20:30; 22:25 = 2 Ch 18:24, 2 K 9:2; pl. = store-rooms Pr 24:4; so ח׳ הַמִּטּוֹת 2 K 11:2 = 2 Ch 22:11, i.e. room where beds were stored (Ke Th); metaph. ח׳ מָ֑וֶת Pr 7:27 (‖ דַּרְכֵי שְׁאוֹל); חדרי תֵּמָן Jb 9:9 chambers of south (where constellations are treasured up, v. Di; Hoffm. thinks of n.pr. of star or constell.); cf. Jb 37:9 a chamber whence comes storm-wind (סוּפָה); חַדְרֵי בֶטֶן i.e. inner parts of body, only fig. Pr 18:8 = 26:22, 20:27, 30; in Dt 32:25 מֵחֲדָרִים = within, poet. for מִבַּיִת, ‖ מִחוּץ without.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חדר (châdar) (H2314) — to surround.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חָדַר
- (b. h.) [to cut off,] to surround, enclose. Part. pass. חָדוּר rounded, v. הָדַר.
חֲדַר
- , to swarm around. Targ. Y. I Deut. I, 44 היכמא דחַדְרָן וחיישן וכ׳ (some ed. דחדדן, v. חֲדַד) as the wasps swarm around (man) and hie away (cmp. חזר in Targ. Ps. CXVIII, 11, sq.).
חֶדֶר
- preced. wds.) enclosure, chamber, secret compartment. B. Bath. IV, 1 הח׳ וכ׳ the special enclosure for storage inside of the building; a. fr.—Trnsf. the inner part of the female genitals, the upper end of the vagina or uterus. Nidd. II, 5. Ib. 17ᵇ; Y. ib. II, 50ᵃ top.—Pl. חֲדָרִים. בחַדְרֵי ח׳ in the remotest recesses, in strict secrecy. Bets. 9ᵃ, a. fr., v. מַרְאִית. Cant. R. to I, 4 (הביאני) ח׳ בהמות וכ׳ the mysteries of Behemoth &c.; ח׳ מרכבה, v. מֶרְכָּבָה; Yalk. Cant. 982.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 26 distinct written forms H2315 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2315, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 30 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 33 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 43:30
- Exodus 8:3
- Deuteronomy 32:25
- Judges 3:24
- 2 Samuel 4:7
- 1 Kings 1:15
- 2 Kings 6:12
- 1 Chronicles 28:11
- 2 Chronicles 18:24
- Job 9:9
- Psalms 105:30
- Proverbs 7:27
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
