Chamber
תָּאStrong’s H8372ta
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ta is the Hebrew word usually translated “chambers”, “chambers its” and “guardroom of”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.”
Meaning
- Chamber, guardroom
How it's translated
- the chambers 3
- and chambers its 3
- guardroom of 2
- and the chamber 2
- and chambers of 1
- the chamber 1
- chambers its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 9
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 12:11And when the king entered into the house of the LORD, the guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into the guard chamber.
- Ezekiel 40:7And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed.
- Ezekiel 40:10And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.
- Ezekiel 40:12The space also before the little chambers was one cubit on this side, and the space was one cubit on that side: and the little chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.
- Ezekiel 40:13He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty cubits, door against door.
- Ezekiel 40:16And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.
Hebrew dictionary
תָּא ta · chamber
chamber, guardroom
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.