# דֶּלֶת (delet)

Israeli respelling: de-let. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1817. 78 Old Testament occurrences.

something swinging, i.e. the valve of adoor

King James renderings: door (two-leaved), gate, leaf, lid. (Psalm 141:3).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/delet-h1817

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 19:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/19/6) — And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
- [Genesis 19:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/19/9) — And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse wi…
- [Genesis 19:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/19/10) — But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.
- [Exodus 21:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/21/6) — Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his…
- [Deuteronomy 3:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/3/5) — All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
- [Deuteronomy 15:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/15/17) — Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidserva…
- [Joshua 2:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/2/19) — And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be gu…
- [Joshua 6:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/6/26) — And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall la…
- [Judges 3:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/3/23) — Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.
- [Judges 3:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/3/24) — When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he coveret…
- [Judges 3:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/3/25) — And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: a…
- [Judges 11:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/11/31) — Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shal…
- [Judges 16:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/16/3) — And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them…
- [Judges 19:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/19/22) — Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at t…
- [Judges 19:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/19/27) — And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine wa…
- [1 Samuel 3:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/3/15) — And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to shew Eli the vision.
- [1 Samuel 21:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/21/13) — And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spitt…
- [1 Samuel 23:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/23/7) — And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering in…
- [2 Samuel 13:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/13/17) — Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.
- [2 Samuel 13:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/13/18) — And she had a garment of divers colours upon her: for with such robes were the king’s daughters that were virgins apparelled. Then his serv…
- [1 Kings 6:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/6/31) — And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.
- [1 Kings 6:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/6/32) — The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them wit…
- [1 Kings 6:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/6/34) — And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
- [1 Kings 7:50](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/7/50) — And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors o…
- [1 Kings 16:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/16/34) — In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in h…
- [2 Kings 4:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/4/4) — And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt…
- [2 Kings 4:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/4/5) — So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out.
- [2 Kings 4:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/4/33) — He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD.
- [2 Kings 6:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/6/32) — But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he sa…
- [2 Kings 9:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/9/3) — Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door,…
- [2 Kings 9:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/9/10) — And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.
- [2 Kings 12:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/12/9) — But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into…
- [2 Kings 18:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/18/16) — At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had…
- [1 Chronicles 22:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/22/3) — And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight;
- [2 Chronicles 3:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/3/7) — He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the wall…
- [2 Chronicles 4:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/4/9) — Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.
- [2 Chronicles 4:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/4/22) — And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for th…
- [2 Chronicles 8:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/8/5) — Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
- [2 Chronicles 14:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/14/7) — Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet befo…
- [2 Chronicles 28:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/28/24) — And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the…
- [2 Chronicles 29:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/29/3) — He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
- [2 Chronicles 29:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 p…
- [Nehemiah 3:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/3/1) — Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the do…
- [Nehemiah 3:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/3/3) — But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and th…
- [Nehemiah 3:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/3/6) — Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the…
- [Nehemiah 3:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/3/13) — The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars…
- [Nehemiah 3:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/3/14) — But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Bethhaccerem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the lo…
- [Nehemiah 3:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/3/15) — But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the…
- [Nehemiah 6:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/6/1) — Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, an…
- [Nehemiah 6:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/6/10) — Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in…
- [Nehemiah 7:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/7/1) — Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
- [Nehemiah 7:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/7/3) — And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and…
- [Nehemiah 13:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/13/19) — And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and c…
- [Job 3:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/3/10) — Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
- [Job 31:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/31/32) — The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
- [Job 38:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/38/8) — Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
- [Job 38:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/38/10) — And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
- [Job 41:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/41/14) — Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
- [Psalms 78:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/23) — Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
- [Psalms 107:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/16) — For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
- [Psalms 141:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/141/3) — Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
- [Proverbs 8:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/8/34) — Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
- [Proverbs 26:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/26/14) — As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.
- [Ecclesiastes 12:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/12/4) — And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all t…
- [Song of Solomon 8:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/8/9) — If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
- [Isaiah 26:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/26/20) — Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indign…
- [Isaiah 45:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/45/1) — Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of…
- [Isaiah 45:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/45/2) — I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
- [Isaiah 57:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/57/8) — Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up;…
- [Jeremiah 36:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/36/23) — And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the…
- [Jeremiah 49:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/31) — Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone.
- [Ezekiel 26:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/26/2) — Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I s…
- [Ezekiel 38:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/38/11) — And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwell…
- [Ezekiel 41:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/41/23) — And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
- [Ezekiel 41:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/41/24) — And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.
- [Ezekiel 41:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/41/25) — And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick p…
- [Zechariah 11:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/11/1) — Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
- [Malachi 1:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/1/10) — Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in…