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# bedchamber

«bedchamber» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A bedroom, especially in a palace or a grand house** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a bedchamber, bedchambers — old)

### meaning for a pupil

(old, formal) A bedroom, especially in a palace or a grand house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bedchamber/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: The rabbis took the verse about cursing the king in your bedchamber as a warning that nothing said in secret is truly hidden, and that careless words can come back to harm you. In the primary lessons: Found in old stories, fairy tales, the Bible and history about kings and queens: «the king's bedchamber». It gives the reader a grand, old-fashioned feeling. «Lady of the Bedchamber» is a title for a queen's helper.

### examples

- Curse not the king, no, not in thy thought, and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter. (Writings ECC.10.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bedchamber/#x1)
- The princess slept in a grand bedchamber. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bedchamber/#x2)
- The prince crept into the king's bedchamber. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bedchamber/#x3)
- Servants lit the fire in the queen's bedchamber. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bedchamber/#x4)
- In the old castle we saw the royal bedchamber. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bedchamber/#x5)
- The Lady of the Bedchamber helped the queen dress. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bedchamber/#x6)
- Then the Three Bears thought it necessary that they should make farther search; so they went upstairs into their bedchamber. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bedchamber/#x7)

### note

Old-fashioned; use «bedroom» in everyday English. Compound: bed + chamber (old word for room).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bedchamber» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bedchamber/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.