לִשְׁכָּה
lishkâh · lish-kaw'
a room in a building (whether for storage, eating, or lodging)
Lexicon
Derivation: from an unused root of uncertain meaning;
a room in a building (whether for storage, eating, or lodging)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: chamber, parlour. Compare H5393 (נִשְׁכָּה).
Letters
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
authority, the one who leads › to consume, to destroy › the open hand that covers › to reveal, behold
Authority, the one who leads that works to consume, to destroy of the open hand that covers that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of לִשְׁכָּה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
47 occurrences · 47 OT · 0 NT · 35 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- chambers9 · 19%
- of the chambers5 · 11%
- chamber4 · 9%
- the chambers4 · 9%
- the chamber3 · 6%
- into the chamber2 · 4%
- to the chambers2 · 4%
- in the chamber2 · 4%
- them into the parlour1 · 2%
- by the chamber1 · 2%
- and were over the chambers1 · 2%
- who remaining in the chambers1 · 2%
- and in the chambers1 · 2%
- and of all the chambers1 · 2%
- in the chambers1 · 2%
- unto the chambers1 · 2%
- of the chamber1 · 2%
- and, lo, there were chambers1 · 2%
- and the chambers1 · 2%
- were the chambers1 · 2%
- and the chamber1 · 2%
- and between the chambers1 · 2%
- me into the chamber1 · 2%
- and from under these chambers1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.