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מִסְכְּנוֹתStrong’s H4543

miskenah (mis-ke-nah)

Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Miskenah is the Hebrew word usually translated “storage”, “stores of” and “storehouses”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.

“Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.”
Exodus 1:11 KJV
Meaning
  1. Supply, storage, storage house, magazine
How it's translated
  • storage 5
  • stores of 1
  • and storehouses 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 2 Chronicles 5
  • Exodus 1
  • 1 Kings 1

3 books in all.

Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary

מִסְכְּנוֹת miskenah · storage

supply, storage, storage house, magazine

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “storage” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

STORAGE, noun

[from store.]

  1. The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; or the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.
  2. The price charge or paid for keeping goods in a store.

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.