TBESH · H3957
לִשְׁכָּה · lish.kah · chamber
room, chamber, hall, cell
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lish.kah H3957
לִשְׁכָּה (lish.kah) means “chamber” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
לִשְׁכָּה Hebrew · H3957 47 tagged occurrences in 41 verses
Pronunciation guide: lish-kaw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
from an unused root of uncertain meaning; a room in a building (whether for storage, eating, or lodging)
KJV glosses: chamber, parlour. Compare H5393 (נִשְׁכָּה).
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How translators render H3957
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| chambers | 6 |
| of the chambers | 4 |
| the chamber | 4 |
| the storerooms | 4 |
| chamber | 2 |
| from the chamber | 2 |
| the chambers | 2 |
| were chambers | 2 |
| a chamber | 1 |
| and chambers | 1 |
| and the chamber | 1 |
| and the outer chambers | 1 |
| chambers was | 1 |
| in the chamber | 1 |
| in the chambers | 1 |
| into the hall | 1 |
| just like the chambers | 1 |
| room | 1 |
| rooms | 1 |
| stayed in the temple chambers | 1 |
| storerooms | 1 |
| that the rooms | 1 |
| the group of chambers | 1 |
| the room | 1 |
| the rooms | 1 |
| there was a chamber | 1 |
| were two chambers | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| chambers | 10 |
| of the chambers | 5 |
| the chambers | 5 |
| chamber | 4 |
| the chamber | 3 |
| in the chamber | 2 |
| in the chambers | 2 |
| into the chamber | 2 |
| to the chambers | 2 |
| and between the chambers | 1 |
| and from under these chambers | 1 |
| and in the chambers | 1 |
| and of all the chambers | 1 |
| and the chamber | 1 |
| and the chambers | 1 |
| and were over the chambers | 1 |
| by the chamber | 1 |
| me into the chamber | 1 |
| of the chamber | 1 |
| them into the parlour | 1 |
| unto the chambers | 1 |
Verses containing H3957
Page 1 of 1. 41 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- 1 Samuel 9:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Samuel took Saul and his servant, brought them into the hall, and seated them in the place of honor among those who were invited—about thirty in all.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 23:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And he removed from the entrance to the house of the LORD the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near the chamber of an official named Nathan-melech. And Josiah burned up the chariots of the sun.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 9:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted with the rooms and the treasuries of the house of God.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 9:33
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Those who were musicians, the heads of Levite families, stayed in the temple chambers and were exempt from other duties because they were on duty day and night.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 23:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
but their duty was to assist the descendants of Aaron with the service of the house of the LORD, being responsible for the courts and chambers, the purification of all the holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God,
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 28:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The plans contained everything David had in mind for the courts of the house of the LORD, for all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of the house of God and of the dedicated things,
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 31:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare storerooms in the house of the LORD, and they did so.
Read word by word - Ezra 8:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Guard them carefully until you weigh them out in the chambers of the house of the LORD in Jerusalem before the leading priests, Levites, and heads of the Israelite families.”
Read word by word - Ezra 10:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. And while he stayed there, he ate no food and drank no water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 10:37
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Moreover, we will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God the firstfruits of our dough, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees, and of our new wine and oil. A tenth of our produce belongs to the Levites, so that they shall receive tithes in all the towns where we labor.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 10.38
- Nehemiah 10:38
· BSB · 1 occurrence
A priest of Aaron’s line is to accompany the Levites when they collect the tenth, and the Levites are to bring a tenth of these tithes to the storerooms of the treasury in the house of our God.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 10.39
- Nehemiah 10:39
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For the Israelites and the Levites are to bring the contributions of grain, new wine, and oil to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are kept and where the ministering priests, the gatekeepers, and the singers stay. Thus we will not neglect the house of our God.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 10.40
- Nehemiah 13:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now before this, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God
Read word by word - Nehemiah 13:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and had prepared for Tobiah a large room where they had previously stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the temple articles, and the tithes of grain, new wine, and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, along with the contributions for the priests.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 13:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And I was greatly displeased and threw all of Tobiah’s household goods out of the room.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 13:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then I ordered that the rooms be purified, and I had the articles of the house of God restored to them, along with the grain offerings and frankincense.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 35:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Go to the house of the Rechabites, speak to them, and bring them to one of the chambers of the house of the LORD to offer them a drink of wine.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 35:4
· BSB · 3 occurrences
and I brought them into the house of the LORD, to a chamber occupied by the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah, a man of God. This room was near the chamber of the officials, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah son of Shallum the doorkeeper.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 36:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
From the chamber of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe, which was in the upper courtyard at the opening of the New Gate of the house of the LORD, Baruch read from the scroll the words of Jeremiah in the hearing of all the people.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 36:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
he went down to the scribe’s chamber in the king’s palace, where all the officials were sitting: Elishama the scribe, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Achbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 36:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the officials went to the king in the courtyard. And having stored the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, they reported everything to the king.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 36:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king and all the officials who were standing beside him.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 40:17
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Then he brought me into the outer court, and there were chambers and a pavement laid out all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement,
Read word by word - Ezekiel 40:38
· BSB · 1 occurrence
There was a chamber with a doorway by the portico in each of the inner gateways. There the burnt offering was to be washed.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 40:44
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Outside the inner gate, within the inner court, were two chambers, one beside the north gate and facing south, and another beside the south gate and facing north.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 40:45
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the man said to me: “The chamber that faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple,
Read word by word - Ezekiel 40:46
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and the chamber that faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, the only Levites who may approach the LORD to minister before Him.”
Read word by word - Ezekiel 41:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and the outer chambers was twenty cubits wide all around the temple.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 42:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the man led me out northward into the outer court, and he brought me to the group of chambers opposite the temple courtyard and the outer wall on the north side.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 42:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 42:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 42:7
· BSB · 2 occurrences
An outer wall in front of the chambers was fifty cubits long and ran parallel to the chambers and the outer court.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 42:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those facing the temple were a hundred cubits long.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 42:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And below these chambers was the entrance on the east side as one enters them from the outer court.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 42:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
On the south side along the length of the wall of the outer court were chambers adjoining the courtyard and opposite the building,
Read word by word - Ezekiel 42:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
with a passageway in front of them, just like the chambers that were on the north. They had the same length and width, with similar exits and dimensions.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 42:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And corresponding to the doors of the chambers that were facing south, there was a door in front of the walkway that was parallel to the wall extending eastward.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 42:13
· BSB · 3 occurrences
Then the man said to me, “The north and south chambers facing the temple courtyard are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings—the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings—for the place is holy.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 44:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When they go out to the outer court, to the people, they are to take off the garments in which they have ministered, leave them in the holy chambers, and dress in other clothes so that they do not transmit holiness to the people with their garments.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 45:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
An adjacent area 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide shall belong to the Levites who minister in the temple; it will be their possession for towns in which to live.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 46:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the man brought me through the entrance at the side of the gate into the holy chambers facing north, which belonged to the priests, and he showed me a place there at the far western end
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