לִשְׁכָּה lishkah

Hebrew word for “chamber” · Strong’s H3957 · used 47 times in 41 verses

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Meaning

room, chamber, hall, cell

How it is translated

Glosses given for lishkah in context, with how often each is used:

• rooms 24
• room 15
• store-rooms 6
• room towards 1
• over the store-room 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 42 (10), Ezekiel 40 (5), Nehemiah 13 (4), Jeremiah 36 (4), Nehemiah 10 (3), 1 Chronicles 9 (2), Jeremiah 35 (2), 1 Samuel 9 (1), 2 Kings 23 (1), 1 Chronicles 23 (1)

Forms

• הלשׁכות 17
• לשׁכות 9
• לשׁכת 6
• בלשׁכת 5
• הלשׁכה 3
• לשׁכתה 1
• לשׁכה 1
• ללשׁכת 1
• מלשׁכת 1
• ולשׁכה 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with lishkah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• חָצֵר chatser “court” 12
• חִיצוֹן chitson “outer” 6
• צָפוֹן tsaphon “north” 7
• כֹּהֵן kohen “priest” 10
• דֶּרֶךְ derekh “way” 9
• לֵוִי leviyyi “Levi” 7
• דָּרוֹם darom “south” 4
• רֹחַב rochav “width” 5
• שָׁם sham “there” 8
• פֶּתַח petach “entrance” 5
• בִּנְיָן binyan “building” 3
• גִּזְרָה gizrah “cutting/separation” 3

Key verses

The verses using lishkah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Chronicles 9:33 — And 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 23:28 — Because 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…
• 1 Chronicles 28:12 — And 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…
• Ezra 10:6 — Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor…
• Nehemiah 10:37 — And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the…
• Nehemiah 13:5 — And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the…
• Jeremiah 35:2 — Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
• Jeremiah 35:4 — And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the…
• Jeremiah 36:10 — Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at…
• Jeremiah 36:12 — Then he went down into the king’s house, into the scribe’s chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of…
• Ezekiel 40:17 — Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement.
• Ezekiel 42:13 — Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.