Chamber
לִשְׁכָּהStrong’s H3957lishkah (lish-kah)
Appears in 41 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Lishkah is the Hebrew word usually translated “rooms”, “room of” and “store-rooms”. It appears in 41 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which were about thirty persons.”
Meaning
- Room, chamber, hall, cell
How it's translated
- the rooms 10
- room of 6
- the store-rooms 5
- rooms 5
- rooms of 4
- the room 3
- the rooms of 2
- in room of 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 19
- Nehemiah 7
- Jeremiah 6
- 1 Chronicles 4
- Ezra 2
- 1 Samuel 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 23:11And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
- 1 Chronicles 9:26For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.
- 1 Chronicles 9:33And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for they were employed in that work day and night.
- 1 Chronicles 23:28Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;
- 1 Chronicles 28:12And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit, of the courts of the house of the LORD, and of all the chambers round about, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the dedicated things:
- 2 Chronicles 31:11Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them,
Hebrew dictionary
לִשְׁכָּה lishkah · chamber
room, chamber, hall, cell
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “chamber” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CHAMBER, verb intransitive
- To reside in or occupy as a chamber
- To be wanton; to indulge in lewd or immodest behavior.
All definitions and other forms of “chamber”
CHAMBER, verb transitive
To shut up as in a chamber
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.