Parlor
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) Commonly, in the United States, a drawing-room, or the room where visitors are received and entertained.
(2): ( n.) In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, - a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor.
(3): ( n.) A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc.
(4): ( n.) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without.
Smith's Bible Dictionary [2]
Parlor. A word in English usage meaning The Common Room Of The Family, and hence, probably, in Authorized Version, denoting The King'S Audience-Chamber, so used in reference to Eglon. Judges 3:20-25.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
is the rendering occasionally of three Heb. words: חֶדֶר , Cheder , an Enclosed place ( 1 Chronicles 28:11; Sept. Ἀποθήκη , Vulg. Cubiculum ), especially an inner room or "chamber" (as elsewhere almost invariably rendered); 2, לַשְׁכָּה , Lishkah , a bedroom ( 1 Samuel 9:22; Sept. Κατάλυμα , Vulg. Triclinium ), especially a corner cell or "chamber" (as elsewhere nearly constantly rendered) in a Courtyard ; 3, עֲלַיָּה , Aliydh , an upper room ( Judges 3:20; Judges 3:23-25; Sept. Ὑπέρῳον , Vulg. Ocenaculum ), especially "the chamber" (as elsewhere usually rendered) over the gate or on the roof. (See Chamber). In Judges 3:20-28 the words in the original imply an upper chamber of coolness, no doubt such as are still found in the mansions and gardens of the East, to which the owner retires to enjoy a purer air and more extensive prospect than any other part of his dwelling commands, and where he usually takes his siesta during the heat of the day. It is kept as a strictly private apartment, no one entering it but, such as are specially invited. (See House). Kitto observes (note in Pict. Bible, ad loc.) that "it appears to have been an apartment detached from the main building, but having a communication with it, and also with the exterior. It also probably enjoyed a free circulation of the air, which rendered it particularly agreeable in the heat of summer, especially in so very warm a district as the plain of Jericho." (See Upper Room).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
par´lẽr : This word in the King James Version, occurring in Judges 3:20-25; 1 Samuel 9:22; 1 Chronicles 28:11 , is in every instance changed in the Revised Version: in Judges into "upper room," in 1 Samuel into "guest-chamber," in 1 Chronicles into "chambers," representing as many Hebrew words. See House .
Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature [5]
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