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Lexicon :: Strong's H3957 - liškâ

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לִשְׁכָּה
Transliteration
liškâ
Pronunciation
lish-kaw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root of uncertain meaning
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TWOT Reference: 1129a

Strong’s Definitions

לִשְׁכָּה lishkâh, lish-kaw'; from an unused root of uncertain meaning; a room in a building (whether for storage, eating, or lodging):—chamber, parlour. Compare H5393.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 47x

The KJV translates Strong's H3957 in the following manner: chamber (46x), parlour (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 47x
The KJV translates Strong's H3957 in the following manner: chamber (46x), parlour (1x).

  1. room, chamber, hall, cell

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
לִשְׁכָּה lishkâh, lish-kaw'; from an unused root of uncertain meaning; a room in a building (whether for storage, eating, or lodging):—chamber, parlour. Compare H5393.
STRONGS H3957: Abbreviations
† לִשְׁכָּה noun feminine room, chamber, hall, cell, lishka (Late Hebrew id. Targum לִשְׁכְּתָא; compare also נִשְׁכָּה; on the lishka see NowArchaeology ii. 37, 52, 79; BoGeogr.I, xvii. 438 (ed. Leusd.) compare Greek λέσχη, compare RsSemitic i. 236 (2nd ed. 254) and elsewhere); — ל׳ Ezekiel 40:38 +; construct לִשְׁכַּת 2 Kings 23:11 +; with ה locative לִשְׁכָּ֑תָה 1 Samuel 9:22; plural לְשָׁכוֺת Ezekiel 40:17 +; construct לִשְׁכוֺת Nehemiah 10:38 +; —
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a. of room connected with a sanctuary (בָּמָה), where sacrificial meal was eaten 1 Samuel 9:22, insert also probably 1 Samuel 1:18 (Greek Version of the LXX We Dr Klo Bu).
b. connected with Solomon's temple, where wine offered to Rechabites Jeremiah 35:2, 4; compare Jeremiah 35:4; Jeremiah 35:4 one where prophecy read Jeremiah 36:10 (both these apparently open, compare GieJeremiah 35:2); compare בַּפַּרְוָרִים ֗֗֗ הַסָּרִיס נְתַןמֶֿלֶך לִשְׁכַּת 2 Kings 23:11; used of Levites' cells 1 Chronicles 9:33; = store-rooms 1 Chronicles 9:26 (|| אֹצָרוֺת), 1 Chronicles 23:28; 1 Chronicles 28:12; 2 Chronicles 31:11.
c. in Ezekiel's temple, cells for priests, singers, etc. Ezekiel 40:17 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 40:38, 44, 45, 46 + Ezekiel 41:10 (strike out Co Bthl), Ezekiel 42:1, 4, 7, 8, 11 + Ezekiel 42:12 (strike out Co Bthl); in three tiers, compare הָעֶלְיוֺנֹת הַלְּ׳ Ezekiel 42:5 (see Ezekiel 42:3), (Ezekiel 45:5 read עָרִים לָשֶׁבֶת Greek Version of the LXX Sm Co SgfrKauAT Bthl); הַקֹּדֶשׁ ל׳ for sacred uses Ezekiel 42:13 (3 times in verse); Ezekiel 44:19; Ezekiel 46:19.
d. in second temple, as store-rooms Ezra 8:29; Nehemiah 10:38; Nehemiah 10:39 (|| בֵּית הָאוֺצָר), Nehemiah 10:40; used by individuals Ezra 10:6; Nehemiah 13:5 (גְּדוֺלָה ל׳), Nehemiah 13:8, in general Nehemiah 13:4; Nehemiah 13:9.
2. of scribe's room in royal palace Jeremiah 36:12, 20, 21.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Samuel

1:18; 9:22; 9:22

2 Kings

23:11; 23:11

1 Chronicles

9:26; 9:33; 23:28; 28:12

2 Chronicles

31:11

Ezra

8:29; 10:6

Nehemiah

10:38; 10:38; 10:39; 13:4; 13:5; 13:8; 13:9

Jeremiah

35:2; 35:2; 35:4; 35:4; 35:4; 36:10; 36:12; 36:20; 36:21

Ezekiel

40:17; 40:17; 40:38; 40:38; 40:44; 40:45; 40:46; 41:10; 42:1; 42:3; 42:4; 42:5; 42:7; 42:8; 42:11; 42:12; 42:13; 44:19; 45:5; 46:19

H3957

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Strong's Number H3957 matches the Hebrew לִשְׁכָּה (liškâ),
which occurs 47 times in 41 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:22 - And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them to the inn, and set them there a place among the chief of those that were called, about seventy men.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:11 - And he burned the horses which the kings of Juda had given to the sun in the entrance of the house of the Lord, [fn]by the treasury of Nathan the [fn]king's eunuch, in the [fn]suburbs; and he burned the chariot of the sun with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:26 - For four strong men have the charge of the gates; and the Levites were over the chambers, and they keep watch over the treasures of the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:33 - And these were the singers, heads of families of the Levites, to whom were established daily courses, for they were employed in the services day and night.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:28 - For he appointed them to wait on Aaron, to minister in the house of the Lord, over the courts, and over the chambers, and over the purification of all the holy things, and over the works of the service of the house of God;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:12 - and the plan which he had in his mind of the courts of the house of the Lord, and of all the chambers round about, designed for the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the holy things, and of the chambers for resting:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:11 - And Ezekias told them yet farther to prepare chambers for the house of the Lord; and they prepared them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:29 - Be watchful and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief priests and the Levites, and the chiefs of families in Jerusalem, at the chambers of the house of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:6 - And Esdras rose up from before the house of God, and went to the treasury of Joanan the son of Elisub; he even went thither: he ate no bread, and drank no water; for he mourned over the unfaithfulness of them of the captivity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:37 - (LXX 10:38) And the first-fruits of our corn, and the fruit of every tree, of wine, and of oil, will we bring to the priests to the treasury of the house of God; and a tithe of our land to the Levites: for the Levites themselves shall receive tithes in all the cities of the land we cultivate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:38 - (LXX 10:39) And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites in the tithe of the Levite: and the Levites shall bring up the tenth part of their tithe to the house of our God, into the treasuries of the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:39 - (LXX 10:40) For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring into the treasuries the first-fruits of the corn, and wine, and oil; and there are the holy vessels, and the priests, and the ministers, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:4 - And before this time Eliasib the priest dwelt in the treasury of the house of our God, connected with Tobias;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:5 - and he made himself a great treasury, and there they were formerly in the habit of bestowing the offerings, and the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithe of the corn, and the wine, and the oil, the ordered portion of the Levites, and singers, and porters; and the first-fruits of the priests.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:8 - And it appeared very evil to me: so I cast forth all the furniture of the house of Tobias from the treasury.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:9 - And I gave orders, and they purified the treasuries: and I restored thither the vessels of the house of God, and the offerings, and the frankincense.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:2 - (LXX 42:2) Go to the house of the Archabin, and thou shalt bring them to the house of the Lord, into one of the courts, and give them wine to drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:4 - (LXX 42:4) and I brought them into the house of the Lord, into the chamber of the sons of Joanan, the son of Ananias, the son of Godolias, a man of God, who dwells near the house of the princes that are over the house of Maasæas the son of Selom, who kept the court.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:10 - (LXX 43:10) And Baruch read in the book the words of Jeremias in the house of the Lord, in the house of Gamarias son of Saphan the scribe, in the upper court, in the entrance of the new gate of the house of the Lord, and in the ears of all the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:12 - (LXX 43:12) And he went down to the king's house, into the house of the scribe: and, behold, there were sitting there all the princes, Elisama the scribe, and Dalæas the son of Selemias, and Jonathan the son of Acchobor, and Gamarias the son of Saphan, and Sedekias the son of Ananias, and all the princes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:20 - (LXX 43:20) And they went in to the king into the court, and gave the roll to one to keep in the house of Elisama; and they told the king all these words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:21 - (LXX 43:21) And the king sent Judin to fetch the roll: and he took it out of the house of Elisama: and Judin read in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes who stood round the king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:17 - And he brought me into the inner court, and, behold, there were chambers, and peristyles round about the court; thirty chambers within the ranges of columns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:38

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:38 - Its chambers and its door-ways, and its porches at the second gate served as a drain,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:44

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:44 - And he brought me into the inner court, and behold there were two chambers in the inner court, one behind the gate looking to the north, turning southward, and one behind the southern gate, but which looks to the north.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:45

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:45 - And he said to me, This chamber that looks to the south, is for the priests that keep the charge of the house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:46

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:46 - And the chamber that looks to the north is for the priests that keep the charge of the altar: they are the sons of Sadduc, those of the tribe of Levi who draw near to the Lord to serve him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:10 - and between the chambers, were a width of twenty cubits, the circumference of the house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:1 - And he brought me into the inner court eastward, opposite the northern gate: and he brought me in, and behold five chambers near the vacant space, and near the northern partition,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:4 - And in front of the chambers was a walk ten cubits in breadth, the length reaching to a hundred cubits; and their doors were northward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:5 - And the upper walks were in like manner: for the peristyle projected from it, even from the range of columns below, and there was a space between; so were there a peristyle and a space between, and so were there two porticos.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:7 - And there was light without, corresponding to the chambers of the outer court looking toward the front of the northern chambers; the length of them was fifty cubits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:8 - For the length of the chambers looking toward the inner court was fifty cubits, and these are the ones that front the others; the whole was a hundred cubits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:9 - And there were doors of these chambers for an outlet towards the east, so that one should go through them out of the outer court,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:10 - by the opening of the walk at the corner; and the south parts were toward the south, toward the remaining space, and toward the partition, and so were the chambers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:11 - And the walk was in front of them, according to the measures of the chambers toward the north, both according to the length of them, and according to the breadth of them, and according to all their openings, and according to all their turnings, and according to their lights, and according to their doors.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:12 - So were the measures of the chambers toward the south, and according to the doors at the entrance of the walk, as it were the distance of a reed for light, and eastward as one went in by them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:13 - And he said to me, The chambers toward the north, and the chambers toward the south, in front of the void spaces, these are the chambers of the sanctuary, wherein the priests the sons of Sadduc, who draw nigh to the Lord, shall eat the most holy things: and there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat-offering, and the sin-offerings, and the trespass-offerings; because the place is holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:19 - And when they go out into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their robes, in which they minister; and they shall lay them up in the chambers of the sanctuary, and shall put on other robes, and they shall not sanctify the people with their robes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:5 - the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the breadth twenty thousand: and the Levites that attend the house, they shall have cities to dwell in for a possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:19 - And he brought me into the entrance of the place behind the gate, into the chamber of the sanctuary belonging to the priests, that looks toward the north: and, behold, there was a place set apart.
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