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Ezekiel 40:38
“And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
לִשְׁכָּהlishkâh · lish-kaw'
H3957 · Hebrew
H3957 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a room in a building (whether for storage, eating, or lodging)
- Derivation
- from an unused root of uncertain meaning;
- KJV renderings
- chamber, parlour. Compare H5393 (נִשְׁכָּה).
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- לִשְׁכָּ֣ה — common noun, feminine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 48 times in the Hebrew Bible.1 Samuel 9:222 Kings 23:111 Chronicles 9:261 Chronicles 9:331 Chronicles 23:28
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read לִשְׁכָּה here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.