miskna · storehouses

What it means

miskna (מִסְכְּנָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “storehouses”.

Store cities for supplies.

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. Buildings for keeping supplies.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• storage ×3
• store ×2
• storehouses ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×5

• Exodus 1:11

  So they set over them chiefs of forced labor to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Rameses.

• 1 Kings 9:19

  and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and the cities for chariots, and the cities for horsemen, and the desire of Solomon that he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his dominion.

• 2 Chronicles 8:4

  He built Tadmor in the wilderness and all the storage cities that he built in Hamath.

• 2 Chronicles 8:6

  and Baalath, and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities of the chariots and the cities of the horsemen, and all the desire of Solomon, what he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

• 2 Chronicles 16:4

  Ben-hadad listened to King Asa, and sent the commanders of the forces that he had against the cities of Israel, and they struck Ijon and Dan and Abel-maim and all the storehouses of the cities of Naphtali.

• 2 Chronicles 17:12

  Jehoshaphat kept growing greater and greater, and he built in Judah citadels and store cities.

• 2 Chronicles 32:28

  and storehouses for the produce of grain, new wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of livestock, and flocks for the folds.