Genesis 43:30
And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.
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Chamber
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Acts 20:8
And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.
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8 occurrences in 7 verses.
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לִשְׁכָּה
lishkâh · lish-kaw'
15 times translated as this KJV form47 total Strong's occurrences
a room in a building (whether for storage, eating, or lodging)
Strong's KJV usage: chamber, parlour. Compare 5393.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Kings 23:11Strong's last: Ezekiel 42:1
Open full H3957 profile →חֶדֶר
cheder · kheh'-der
14 times translated as this KJV form38 total Strong's occurrences
an apartment (usually literal)
Strong's KJV usage: ((bed) inner) chamber, innermost(-ward) part, parlour, south, × within.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 43:30Strong's last: Joel 2:16
Open full H2315 profile →עֲלִיָּה
ʻălîyâh · al-ee-yaw'
6 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences
something lofty, i.e. a stair-way; also a second-story room (or even one on the roof); figuratively, the sky
Strong's KJV usage: ascent, (upper) chamber, going up, loft, parlour.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 18:33Strong's last: 2 Kings 23:12
Open full H5944 profile →תָּא
tâʼ · taw
4 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
a room (as circumscribed)
Strong's KJV usage: (little) chamber.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Kings 14:28Strong's last: Ezekiel 40:13
Open full H8372 profile →ὑπερῷον
hyperōion · hoop-er-o'-on
3 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a higher part of the house, i.e. apartment in the third story
Strong's KJV usage: :--upper chamber (room).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 9:37Strong's last: Acts 20:8
Open full G5253 profile →צֵלָע
tsêlâʻ · tsay-law'
3 times translated as this KJV form41 total Strong's occurrences
a rib (as curved), literally (of the body) or figuratively (of a door, i.e. leaf); hence, a side, literally (of a person) or figuratively (of an object or the sky, i.e. quarter); architecturally, a (especially floor or ceiling) timber or plank (single or collective, i.e. a flooring)
Strong's KJV usage: beam, board, chamber, corner, leaf, plank, rib, side (chamber).
Strong's first: 1 Kings 6:8Strong's last: Ezekiel 41:9
Open full H6763 profile →נִשְׁכָּה
nishkâh · nish-kaw'
2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a cell
Strong's KJV usage: chamber.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Nehemiah 3:30Strong's last: Nehemiah 13:7
Open full H5393 profile →חֻפָּה
chuppâh · khoop-paw'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a canopy
Strong's KJV usage: chamber, closet, defence.
Strong's first: Psalms 19:5Strong's last: Psalms 19:5
Open full H2646 profile →יָצוּעַ
yâtsûwaʻ · yaw-tsoo'-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
spread, i.e. a bed; (architecture) an extension, i.e. wing or lean-to (a single story or collectively)
Strong's KJV usage: bed, chamber, couch.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Kings 6:6Strong's last: 1 Kings 6:6
Open full H3326 profile →עַלִּית
ʻallîyth · al-leeth'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a second-story room
Strong's KJV usage: chamber. Compare 5944.
Strong's first: Daniel 6:10Strong's last: Daniel 6:10
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H5944
And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.
H5944
Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
H5944
And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there.
H2315
And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber;
H3957
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.
H5944
And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
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chamber
CHAMBER,
CHAMBER,
1. An apartment in an upper story, or in a story above the lower floor of a dwelling house; often used as a lodging room.
2. Any retired room; any private apartment which a person occupies; as, he called on the judge at his chamber
Joseph entered into his chamber and wept. Genesis 43:30.
3. Any retired place.
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. Proverbs 7:27.
4. A hollow or cavity; as the chamber of the eye.
5. A place where an assembly meets, and the assembly itself; as star-chamber; imperial chamber; chamber of accounts; ecclesiastical chamber; privy chamber; chamber of commerce, etc.
6. In military affairs, the chamber of a mortar is that part of the chase, where the powder lies.
7. A powder-chamber, or bomb-chamber, a place under ground for holding powder and bombs, where they may be safe and secured from rains.
8. The chamber of a mine, a place, generally of a cubical form, where the powder is confined.
9. A species of ordnance.
10. The clouds. Psalms 104:3.
11. Certain southern constellations which are hid from us.
The chambers of the south. Job 9:9.
CHAMBER-council, a private or secret council
CHAMBER-counsel, a counselor, who gives his opinion in a private apartment, but does not advocate causes in court.
CHAMBER,
CHAMBER, verb intransitive
1. To reside in or occupy as a chamber
2. To be wanton; to indulge in lewd or immodest behavior. Romans 13:1.
CHAMBER,
CHAMBER, verb transitive To shut up as in a chamber
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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