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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 make your prayer, go into your private room, and, shutting the door, say a prayer to your Father in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.
So, whatever you have said in the dark, will come to men's hearing in the light, and what you have said secretly inside the house, will be made public from the house-tops.
Give thought to the ravens; they do not put seeds into the earth, or get together grain; they have no store-houses or buildings; and God gives them their food: of how much greater value 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 went in flight to Aphek, into the town, where a wall came down on the twenty-seven thousand who were still living. And Ben-hadad went in flight into the town, into an inner room.
And Micaiah said, Truly, you will see on that day when you go into an inner room to keep yourself safe.
Get the people together, make the mass of the people holy, send for the old men, get together the children and babies at the breast: let the newly married man come out of his room and the bride from her tent.
But when you make your prayer, go into your private room, and, shutting the door, say a prayer to your Father in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.
So, whatever you have said in the dark, will come to men's hearing in the light, and what you have said secretly inside the house, will be made public from the house-tops.
Give thought to the ravens; they do not put seeds into the earth, or get together grain; they have no store-houses or buildings; and God gives them their food: of how much greater value are you than the birds!