Chamber
נִשְׁכָּהStrong’s H5393nishkah (nish-kah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nishkah is the Hebrew word usually translated “room his”, “rooms” and “room”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, another piece. After him repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber.”
Meaning
- Chamber, room, cell
How it's translated
- room his 1
- the rooms 1
- a room 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Nehemiah 12:44And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.
- Nehemiah 13:7And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.
Hebrew dictionary
נִשְׁכָּה nishkah · chamber
chamber, room, 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.