1 Kings 6:5
And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
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Chambers
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Matthew 24:26
Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
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לִשְׁכָּה
lishkâh · lish-kaw'
31 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: 1 Chronicles 9:26Strong's last: Ezekiel 46:19
Open full H3957 profile →תָּא
tâʼ · taw
9 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: Ezekiel 40:7Strong's last: Ezekiel 40:36
Open full H8372 profile →צֵלָע
tsêlâʻ · tsay-law'
8 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 6:5Strong's last: Ezekiel 41:26
Open full H6763 profile →חֶדֶר
cheder · kheh'-der
7 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: Job 9:9Strong's last: Ezekiel 8:12
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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.
Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 28:11Strong's last: Jeremiah 22:14
Open full H5944 profile →יָצוּעַ
yâtsûwaʻ · yaw-tsoo'-ah
2 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.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 6:5Strong's last: 1 Kings 6:10
Open full H3326 profile →ταμεῖον
tameîon · tam-i'-on
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a dispensary or magazine, i.e. a chamber on the ground-floor or interior of an Oriental house (generally used for storage or privacy, a spot for retirement)
Strong's KJV usage: :--secret chamber, closet, storehouse.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 24:26Strong's last: Matthew 24:26
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châdar · khaw-dar'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to inclose (as a room), i.e. (by analogy,) to beset (as in a siege)
Strong's KJV usage: enter a privy chamber.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 21:14Strong's last: Ezekiel 21:14
Open full H2314 profile →נִשְׁכָּה
nishkâh · nish-kaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a cell
Strong's KJV usage: chamber.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Nehemiah 12:44Strong's last: Nehemiah 12:44
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H3957
And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
H3957
Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
H3957
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.
H3957
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.
H3957
For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.
H3957
And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.
H3957
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.
H3957
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.
H3957
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.
H3957
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.
H3957
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.
H3957
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.
H3957
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.
H3957
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.
H3957
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.
G5009
Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
English meaning and historical usage.
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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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