Reference: Closet
Easton
as used in the New Testament, signifies properly a storehouse (Lu 12:24), and hence a place of privacy and retirement (Mt 6:6; Lu 12:3).
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But when you pray, go into your [most] private room, and, closing the door, pray to your Father, Who is in secret; and your Father, Who sees in secret, will reward you in the open.
Whatever you have spoken in the darkness shall be heard and listened to in the light, and what you have whispered in [people's] ears and behind closed doors will be proclaimed upon the housetops.
Observe and consider the ravens; for they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn; and [yet] God feeds them. Of how much more worth are you than the birds!
Hastings
The Gr. word so rendered in NT properly denotes 'a store-chamber' as Lu 12:24 RV, then any inner or more private room as opposed to the living-room; so Mt 6:6; Lu 12:3 RV 'inner-chamber.' Cf. 1Ki 20:30; 22:25, lit. 'a chamber within a chamber,' and House,
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But the rest fled to the city of Aphek, and the wall fell upon 27,000 men who were left. Ben-hadad fled into the city and from chamber to chamber.
Micaiah said, Behold, you shall see on that day when you go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.
Gather the people, sanctify the congregation; assemble the elderly people, gather the children and the nursing infants; let the bridegroom [who is legally exempt from attending] go forth from his chamber and the bride out of her closet. [None is exempt from the humiliation.]
But when you pray, go into your [most] private room, and, closing the door, pray to your Father, Who is in secret; and your Father, Who sees in secret, will reward you in the open.
Whatever you have spoken in the darkness shall be heard and listened to in the light, and what you have whispered in [people's] ears and behind closed doors will be proclaimed upon the housetops.
Observe and consider the ravens; for they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn; and [yet] God feeds them. Of how much more worth are you than the birds!