cheder · inner room

What it means

cheder (חֶדֶר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “inner room”.

Private chamber.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The inner part of the house, where one sleeps or stays out of sight.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• room ×21
• chambers ×7
• inner rooms ×5
• chamber ×3
• rooms ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×4
• 2 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×5
• 2 Kings×4
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×6
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Song of Songs×2
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Joel×1

• Genesis 43:30

  Joseph hurried out, for his inner parts were stirred for his brother, and he sought a place to weep; he went into the inner room and wept there.

• Exodus 8:3

  The Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will come up and go into your house, into the room where you sleep, and onto your bed, into the houses of your servants and among your people, into your ovens and into your kneading bowls.

• Deuteronomy 32:25

  Outside the sword will bereave, and in the inner rooms terror, both young man and virgin, the nursing child with the man of gray hair.

• Judges 3:24

  When he had gone out, his servants came and looked, and there the doors of the upper room were locked. They said, “Surely he is covering his feet in the room of coolness.”

• Judges 15:1

  And it happened after some days, in the days of the wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a young goat; and he said, “I will go in to my wife in the room.” But her father did not let him go in.

• Judges 16:9

  Now the ambush was waiting for her in the room. And she said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he snapped the bowstrings as a strand of tow snaps when it smells fire. So his strength was not known.

• Judges 16:12

  So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And the ambush was waiting in the room. But he snapped them from off his arms like a thread.

• 2 Samuel 4:7

  They came into the house while he was lying on his bed in the room where he slept, and they struck him and put him to death and removed his head. They took his head and went by the way of the Arabah all night.

• 2 Samuel 13:10

  Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the meal into the room, and I will eat from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes that she had made and brought them to Amnon her brother in the room.

• 1 Kings 1:15

  So Bathsheba went in to the king, into the chamber; now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering to the king.

• 1 Kings 20:30

  Those who were left fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty and seven thousand men who were left. And Ben-hadad fled and came into the city, into a room within a room.

• 1 Kings 22:25

  Micaiah said, “Look, you will see it on that day, when you go into a room within a room to hide.”

• 2 Kings 6:12

  One of his servants said, “No, my lord the king, but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in the room where you sleep.”

• 2 Kings 9:2

  When you come there, look there for Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi; go in and make him get up from among his brothers, and bring him into a room within a room.

• 2 Kings 11:2

  But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, him and his nurse, and put them in the room of the beds; and they hid him from Athaliah, and he was not put to death.

• 1 Chronicles 28:11

  David gave Solomon his son the pattern of the portico and of its houses, its treasure rooms, its upper rooms, its inner chambers, and of the house of the cover of expiation;

• 2 Chronicles 18:24

  Micaiah said, “Look, you will see it on that day, when you go into a room within a room to hide.”

• 2 Chronicles 22:11

  But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, and she put him and his nurse in the room of the beds. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Joram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest —for she was the sister of Ahaziah— hid him from Athaliah, and she did not put him to death.

• Job 9:9

  who makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south;

• Job 37:9

  From the chamber comes the whirlwind, and from the north winds the cold.

• Psalms 105:30

  Their land swarmed with frogs, in the chambers of their kings.

• Proverbs 7:27

  Her house is the ways to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

• Proverbs 18:8

  The words of a grumbler are like delicious morsels, and they go down into the inner rooms of the belly.

• Proverbs 20:27

  The lamp of YHWH is the breath of a man, searching all the inner rooms of the belly.

• Proverbs 20:30

  The wounds of a blow cleanse away evil, and lashes, the inner rooms of the belly.

• Proverbs 24:4

  and by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant wealth.

• Proverbs 26:22

  The words of a grumbler are like delicious morsels, and they go down into the inner rooms of the belly.

• Ecclesiastes 10:20

  Even in your thought do not curse the king, and in the chambers of your bed do not curse the rich, for a bird of the sky will carry the voice, and the owner of wings will tell the matter.

• Song of Songs 1:4

  Draw me after you; let us run! The king has brought me into his chambers; we will exult and rejoice in you; we will recall your love more than wine; with uprightness they love you.

• Song of Songs 3:4

  Scarcely had I passed from them when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him and I will not let him go until I have brought him into the house of my mother, and into the chamber of her who conceived me.

• Isaiah 26:20

  Go, my people, enter your rooms, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation passes.

• Ezekiel 8:12

  And he said to me, “Have you seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his chambers of figures? For they are saying, ‘YHWH does not see us; YHWH has forsaken the land.’”

• Joel 2:16

  Gather the people, consecrate the assembly, bring together the elders, gather the children and those nursing at the breasts; let the bridegroom go out from his room, and the bride from her canopy.

And 5 more times.