ta · chamber, guardroom

What it means

ta (תָּא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “chamber, guardroom”.

Chamber, room: a small room, such as the guardroom beside a gate.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A small room by a gate.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• guardrooms ×8
• guardroom ×5

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ezekiel×11

• 1 Kings 14:28

  And it happened, as often as the king went into the house of YHWH, that the runners carried them, and brought them back to the guardroom of the runners.

• 2 Chronicles 12:11

  And it happened, as often as the king went into the house of YHWH, the runners came and carried them, and brought them back to the guardroom of the runners.

• Ezekiel 40:7

  And the guardroom, one reed long and one reed wide; and between the guardrooms, five cubits; and the threshold of the gate beside the portico of the gate on the house side, one reed.

• Ezekiel 40:10

  And the guardrooms of the gate toward the east, three on this side and three on that side, one measure for the three of them, and one measure for the pilasters on this side and on that side.

• Ezekiel 40:12

  And a border in front of the guardrooms, one cubit, and one cubit was the border on that side; and the guardroom was six cubits on this side and six cubits on that side.

• Ezekiel 40:13

  And he measured the gate from the roof of one guardroom to its roof, a width of twenty-five cubits, entrance opposite entrance.

• Ezekiel 40:16

  And there were closed windows toward the guardrooms and toward their pilasters inside the gate all around, and likewise for the porticoes; and windows all around, inside; and on each pilaster were palm trees.

• Ezekiel 40:21

  And its guardrooms, three on this side and three on that side, and its pilasters and its porticoes were according to the measure of the first gate; fifty cubits its length, and the width twenty-five cubits.

• Ezekiel 40:29

  And its guardrooms and its pilasters and its porticoes were according to these measures; and there were windows in it and in its porticoes all around; the length, fifty cubits, and the width, twenty-five cubits.

• Ezekiel 40:33

  And its guardrooms and its pilasters and its porticoes were according to these measures; and there were windows in it and in its porticoes all around; the length, fifty cubits, and the width, twenty-five cubits.

• Ezekiel 40:36

  its guardrooms, its pilasters, and its porticoes; and it had windows all around; the length, fifty cubits, and the width, twenty-five cubits.

And 2 more times.