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Chamber

לִשְׁכָּהStrong’s H3957

lishkah (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.”
1 Samuel 9:22 KJV
Meaning
  1. 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.

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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

  1. To reside in or occupy as a chamber
  2. 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.