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CLOSET.—The Gr. word so rendered in NT properly denotes ‘a store-chamber’ as Luk_12:24 RV [Note: Revised Version.] , then any inner or more private room as opposed to the living-room; so Mat_6:6, Luk_12:3 RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘inner-chamber.’ Cf. 1Ki_20:30; 1Ki_22:25, lit. ‘a chamber within a chamber,’ and House, § 2. For Joe_2:16 see Driver, Joel and Amos, in loc.
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