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Strong's H3957 לִשְׁכָּה (lishkah)

Lishkah means “chamber” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G3957 — pascha (“Passover”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H3957
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 41
Books 8

Strong's H3957 Quick Answer

Strong's H3957 לִשׁכָּה (lishkah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. lishkah (lish-kaw') n-f. 1. a room in a building (whether for storage, eating, or lodging) [from an unused root of uncertain meaning] It has 41 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include chambers, chamber, building, and eat. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
lishkah (lish-kaw') n-f. 1. a room in a building (whether for storage, eating, or lodging) [from an unused root of uncertain meaning]
Usage
41 linked usages
Books
8 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
chambers, chamber, building, and eat

Meaning and Definition

lishkah (lish-kaw') n-f. 1. a room in a building (whether for storage, eating, or lodging) [from an unused root of uncertain meaning] KJV: chamber, parlour. Compare: H5393

Original Word
לִשׁכָּה
Transliteration
lishkah
Morphology
noun fem

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H3957. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H3957 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render lishkah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

chambers 1 Chronicles 9:26 24× chamber 2 Kings 23:11 11× building Ezekiel 42:1 eat Ezra 10:6

How Strong's H3957 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 41 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H3957 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H3957 in the Old Testament

41 indexed usages in Old Testament.

1 Samuel 9:22 KJV

And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which were about thirty persons.

2 Kings 23:11 KJV

And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

1 Chronicles 9:26 KJV

For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.

Usage Excerpts

First 41 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3957.

1 Samuel 9:22 Old Testament, KJV
And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which were about thirty persons.
2 Kings 23:11 Old Testament, KJV
And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
1 Chronicles 9:26 Old Testament, KJV
For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.
1 Chronicles 9:33 Old Testament, KJV
And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for they were employed in that work day and night.
1 Chronicles 23:28 Old Testament, KJV
Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;
1 Chronicles 28:12 Old Testament, KJV
And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit, of the courts of the house of the LORD, and of all the chambers round about, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the dedicated things:
2 Chronicles 31:11 Old Testament, KJV
Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them,
Ezra 8:29 Old Testament, KJV
Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD.
Ezra 10:6 Old Testament, KJV
Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.
Nehemiah 10:37 Old Testament, KJV
And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
Nehemiah 10:38 Old Testament, KJV
And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house.
Nehemiah 10:39 Old Testament, KJV
For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.
Nehemiah 13:4 Old Testament, KJV
And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, was allied unto Tobiah:
Nehemiah 13:5 Old Testament, KJV
And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests.
Nehemiah 13:8 Old Testament, KJV
And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff to Tobiah out of the chamber.
Nehemiah 13:9 Old Testament, KJV
Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meat offering and the frankincense.
Jeremiah 35:2 Old Testament, KJV
Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
Jeremiah 35:4 Old Testament, KJV
And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:
Jeremiah 36:10 Old Testament, KJV
Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD's house, in the ears of all the people.
Jeremiah 36:12 Old Testament, KJV
Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
Jeremiah 36:20 Old Testament, KJV
And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.
Jeremiah 36:21 Old Testament, KJV
So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.
Ezekiel 40:17 Old Testament, KJV
Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement.
Ezekiel 40:38 Old Testament, KJV
And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.
Ezekiel 40:44 Old Testament, KJV
And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south: one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north.
Ezekiel 40:45 Old Testament, KJV
And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.
Ezekiel 40:46 Old Testament, KJV
And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD to minister unto him.
Ezekiel 41:10 Old Testament, KJV
And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.
Ezekiel 42:1 Old Testament, KJV
Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.
Ezekiel 42:4 Old Testament, KJV
And before the chambers was a walk to ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
Ezekiel 42:5 Old Testament, KJV
Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
Ezekiel 42:7 Old Testament, KJV
And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.
Ezekiel 42:8 Old Testament, KJV
For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.
Ezekiel 42:9 Old Testament, KJV
And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.
Ezekiel 42:10 Old Testament, KJV
The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.
Ezekiel 42:11 Old Testament, KJV
And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all their goings out were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.
Ezekiel 42:12 Old Testament, KJV
And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them.
Ezekiel 42:13 Old Testament, KJV
Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.
Ezekiel 44:19 Old Testament, KJV
And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.
Ezekiel 45:5 Old Testament, KJV
And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.
Ezekiel 46:19 Old Testament, KJV
After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a place on the two sides westward.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3957, grouped by book.

1 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 4 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Ezra 2 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 7 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 6 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 19 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H3957 FAQ

What does lishkah (לִשְׁכָּה) mean?

Lishkah (Strong's H3957) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "chamber". lishkah (lish-kaw') n-f. 1. a room in a building (whether for storage, eating, or lodging) [from an unused root of uncertain meaning]

How many times is lishkah (לִשְׁכָּה) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 41 linked usages for Strong's H3957 across 8 books.

Where can I study lishkah (לִשְׁכָּה) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3957 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate lishkah (לִשְׁכָּה)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as chambers, chamber, building, and eat. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.