Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A room for business or social conversation; for the reception of guests. 2. (n.) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without. 3. (n.) In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor. 4. (n.) Commonly, in the United States, a drawing-room, or the room where visitors are received and entertained. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia PARLOR par'-ler: This word in the King James Version, occurring in Judges 3:20-25 1 Samuel 9:22; 1 Chronicles 28:11, is in every instance changed in the Revised Version: in Judges into "upper room," in 1 Samuel into "guest-chamber," in 1 Chronicles into "chambers," representing as many Hebrew words. See HOUSE.

Multi-Version Concordance Parlor (5 Occurrences) Judges 3:20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlor, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat. (KJV WBS) Judges 3:23 Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlor upon him, and locked them. (KJV WBS) Judges 3:24 When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlor were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber. (KJV WBS) Judges 3:25 And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlor; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth. (KJV WBS) 1 Samuel 9:22 And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlor, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which were about thirty persons. (KJV WBS)