DOEHAN (dok'han) or DOCHAN, (Heb. do'khan), occurs in Ezek. ivlo; where the Prophet is directed to take unto him wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet (dokhart) and htches, and to put them into one vessel, and to make bread thereof for himself.
The Hebrew word dokhun is identical with the Arabic dukhun, which is applied in the present day by the Arabs to a small grain cultivated from the middle of Europe to the most southern part of India. This is the common millet, Ponicum of botanists. This is so universally cultivated in the East as one of their smaller corn grasses, that it is most likely to be the kind al luded to in the passage of Ezekiel. J. F. R. DOLEFUL CREATURES (dOrful (Heb. o'akh, a howler, is. xiii:21; A. V. marg., "Ochim"), refer to birds or beasts which utter shrieks or howlings or ominous sounds, such as the booming of owls, the wailing cry of jackals, and the dismal howling of wolves. See Is. xxxiv: 13, 14.
DOOR (dor), (I I eb. de-leth'), an entrance by which people go out and into houses, gardens, etc. The word is used for any kind of means of entrance to or going out.
Figurative. ti) Christ is called the door, and was figured out by the doors or gates of the tabernacle and temple. He, in his person and offices of mediation, is the means of our access to God ( John x :9 ). ( 2) Slothful persons are as a door turning upon its hinges; they appear to be doing something and yet make no progress in anything good (Prov, xxvi :14). The door at which Christ knocks and demands entrance is the understand ing, conscience and affections, and by these he enters into our hearts ( Rev. iii :20 ; Ps. xxiv :7. 9).
(3) The dour is shut after Christ's faithful ones have entered his marriage feast (Mart. xxv :to; Luke xiii:25). (4) The door of faith is open to the gentiles when they have a clear warrant and invitation to believe set be fore them in the gospel• and they are powerfully determined to receive Jesus and all his fullness as the gift of God and the means of access to his favor (Acts xiv:27). (5) An effectual door was opened to the apostles and other min isters when they had opportunity, with ap pearance of success, to preach Christ to multi tudes (1 Cor. xvi :9; 2 Cor• :12; Rev. iii:8)• (6) Ministers have a door of utterance given them when they are helped by God to preach the gospel with great plainness, readiness and boldness (Col. iv :3). (7) Ministers enter in by the door when they have a regular call from God to their office (John x:t, 2). (8) At the door, or before it, im ports nearness, readiness to testify against, come upon, or judge us (Gen. iv:7; Matt. xxiv :33: James v:9). (9) God's making the valley of Achor a door of hope may import that, amid guilt and trouble, the beginnings of mercy shall en courage to hope for still greater favors; or that the conversion of the Samaritans near that place was an earnest of the conversion of the gentiles (I los. 6:15; John x). (See