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title: תָּא — chamber · The Tanakh dictionary
description: תָּא (8372), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 13 times: chamber. BDB 1906: n.m. chamber. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# תָּא

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«תָּא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **chamber** — 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:** 13 times · **Key:** 8372 · **BDB:** תָּא

### Glosses

chambers (7); chamber (2); the.guardroom (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

chamber [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8372/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. chamber [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8372/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 40, 21 chamber (NH id.; perhaps Aramaism, cf. Arabic ثَوَى dwell, مَثْوًى abode (? akin to أَوَى turn aside to lodge, אַוְונָא, ܐܰܘܳܘܢܳܐ lodging-place), Aramaic תָּוָן (in Ez 40 תְּוָא, תָּוַיָּא), ܬܰܘܳܢܳܐ room, chamber);—ת׳ abs. Ez 40:7 +, cstr. 1 K 14:28; sf. תאו Ez 40:21 Kt (Qr תָּאָיו), so v 29, 33, 36; pl. תָּאִים v 7 +; תָּאוֹת v 12; cstr. תָּאֵי v 10;—chamber: תָּא הָרָצִים 1 K 14:28 chamber of the guards = 2 Ch 12:11; in Ezekiel’s temple: Ez 40:7(×2), 10, 12(×2), 13, 16, 21, 29, 33, 36.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «תָּא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8372/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Kings 14:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.14.28/)

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וַיְהִ֛י מִדֵּי־בֹ֥א הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ בֵּ֣ית יְהוָ֑ה יִשָּׂאוּם֙ הָֽרָצִ֔ים וֶהֱשִׁיב֖וּם אֶל־תָּ֥א הָרָצִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and it.was as often.as went the king the.house of.Yahweh they carried.them the runners and they returned.them to the.guardroom of the.runners

*JPS 1917:* And it was so, that as oft as the king went into the house of the LORD, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber.

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[Ezekiel 40:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.40.13/)

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וַיָּ֣מָד אֶת־הַשַּׁ֗עַר מִגַּ֤ג הַתָּא֙ לְגַגּ֔וֹ רֹ֕חַב עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וְחָמֵ֖שׁ אַמּ֑וֹת פֶּ֖תַח נֶ֥גֶד פָּֽתַח׃

*Word for word:* and he.measured (et) the gate from the.roof of the.chamber to roof its breadth twenty and five cubits entrance before entrance

*JPS 1917:* And he measured the gate from the roof of the one cell to the roof of the other, a breadth of five and twenty cubits; door against door.

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