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title: לִשְׁכָּה — room · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לִשְׁכָּה (3957), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 47 times: room. BDB 1906: n.f. room, chamber, hall, cell, lishka. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לִשְׁכָּה

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«לִשְׁכָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **room** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 47 times · **Key:** 3957 · **BDB:** לִשְׁכָּה

### Glosses

rooms (15); the.room (8); the.rooms (8)

### Meaning (OSHB)

room [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3957/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. room, chamber, hall, cell, lishka [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3957/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. room, chamber, hall, cell, lishka (NH id. 𝔗 לִשְׁכְּתָא; cf. also נִשְׁכָּה; on the lishka v. NowArch. ii. 37, 52, 79; BöGeogr. I, xvii. 438 (ed. Leusd.) comp. Gk. λέσχη, cf. RSSem. i. 236 (2nd ed. 254) al.);—ל׳ Ez 40:38 +; cstr. לִשְׁכַּת 2 K 23:11 +; c. ה loc. לִשְׁכָּ֑תָה 1 S 9:22; pl. לְשָׁכוֹת Ez 40:17 +; cstr. לִשְׁכוֹת Ne 10:38 +;— of room connected with a sanctuary (בָּמָה), where sacrif. meal was eaten 1 S 9:22, insert also prob. 1:18 (𝔊 We Dr Klo Bu). connected with Sol.’s temple, where wine offered to Rechabites Je 35:2, 4, cf. v 4(×2); one where prophecy read 36:10 (both these appar. open, cf. Gie Je 35:2); cf. לִשְׁכַּת נְתַן־מֶלֶךְ הַסָּרִיס.. בַּפַּרְוָרִים 2 K 23:11; used of Levites’ cells 1 Ch 9:33; = store-rooms v 26 (‖ אֹצָרוֹת, 23:28; 28:12 2 Ch 31:11. in Ezek.’s temple, cells for priests, singers, etc. Ez 40:17(×2), 38, 44, 45, 46 + 41:10 (del. Co Bthl), 42:1, 4, 7(×2), 8, 11 + v 12 (del. Co Bthl); in three tiers, cf. הַלְּ׳ הָעֶלְיוֹנֹת 42:5 (vid. v 3), (45:5 read עָרִים לָשֶׁבֶת 𝔊 Sm Co SgfrKauAT Bthl); ל׳ הַקֹּדֶשׁ for sacred uses 42:13(×3); 44:19; 46:19. in second temple, as store-rooms Ezr 8:29 Ne 10:38, 39 (‖ בֵּית הָאוֹצָר), v 40; used by individuals Ezr 10:6 Ne 13:5 (ל׳ גְּדוֹלָה), v 8, in gen. v 4, 9. of scribe’s room in royal palace Je 36:12, 20, 21.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 39 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לִשְׁכָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3957/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Chronicles 31:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.31.11/)

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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְחִזְקִיָּ֗הוּ לְהָכִ֧ין לְשָׁכ֛וֹת בְּבֵ֥ית יְהוָ֖ה וַיָּכִֽינוּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Hezekiah to prepare rooms in the.house of.Yahweh and they.prepared.\[them\]

*JPS 1917:* Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them.

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[Ezekiel 41:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.41.10/)

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וּבֵ֨ין הַלְּשָׁכ֜וֹת רֹ֣חַב עֶשְׂרִ֥ים אַמָּ֛ה סָבִ֥יב לַבַּ֖יִת סָבִ֥יב ׀ סָבִֽיב׃

*Word for word:* and between the rooms \[the\].breadth \[was\].twenty cubit\[s\] around (to) the house all.around all.around

*JPS 1917:* And between the chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.

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