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Strong's #3957: lishkah (pronounced lish-kaw')

from an unused root of uncertain meaning; a room in a building (whether for storage, eating, or lodging):--chamber, parlour. Compare 5393.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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lishkâh

1) room, chamber, hall, cell

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from an unused root of uncertain meaning



Usage:

This word is used 47 times:

1 Samuel 9:22: "Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlor, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden,"
2 Kings 23:11: "at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which"
1 Chronicles 9:26: "and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God."
1 Chronicles 9:33: "chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers for they were employed in that work"
1 Chronicles 23:28: "in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things,"
1 Chronicles 28:12: "of the house of the LORD, and of all the chambers round about, of the treasuries of the house of God,"
2 Chronicles 31:11: "Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD;"
Ezra 8:29: "of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD."
Ezra 10:6: "the house of God, and went the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib:"
Nehemiah 10:37: "and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground"
Nehemiah 10:38: "unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house."
Nehemiah 10:39: "of the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests"
Nehemiah 13:4: "this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of our God, was allied"
Nehemiah 13:5: "And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where formerly they laid"
Nehemiah 13:8: "of Tobiah out of the chamber."
Nehemiah 13:9: "Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither brought I again the vessels of God,"
Jeremiah 35:2: "of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink."
Jeremiah 35:4: "them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons the son of Igdaliah,"
Jeremiah 35:4: "of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above"
Jeremiah 35:4: "of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum,"
Jeremiah 36:10: "of Jeremiah of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe,"
Jeremiah 36:12: "house, into the scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat"
Jeremiah 36:20: "into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told"
Jeremiah 36:21: "and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears"
Ezekiel 40:17: "the outward court, and, lo, there were chambers, made for the court round about:"
Ezekiel 40:17: "for the court round about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement."
Ezekiel 40:38: " And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering."
Ezekiel 40:44: "And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the inner"
Ezekiel 40:45: "And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect the south,"
Ezekiel 40:46: " And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, of the charge"
Ezekiel 41:10: "And between the chambers was the width of twenty cubits round about on every side."
Ezekiel 42:1: "and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which"
Ezekiel 42:4: "And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth a way"
Ezekiel 42:5: "Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher"
Ezekiel 42:7: "that was without over against the chambers, toward court on"
Ezekiel 42:7: "court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits."
Ezekiel 42:8: "For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court cubits:"
Ezekiel 42:9: "And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth"
Ezekiel 42:10: " The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east,"
Ezekiel 42:11: "And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward as long"
Ezekiel 42:12: "And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door of the way,"
Ezekiel 42:13: "Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, are before"
Ezekiel 42:13: "me, The north chambers and the south chambers, are before the separate place,"
Ezekiel 42:13: "are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests"
Ezekiel 44:19: "ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not"
Ezekiel 45:5: "have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers."
Ezekiel 46:19: "of the gate, the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the north:"









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