נִשְׁכָּה
nishka · chamber
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5393 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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nishka (נִשְׁכָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “chamber”.
Room: a room beside the temple or in the wall.
How to say it
nish·ka
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
- A room by the temple or wall.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- chamber ×2
- chambers ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Nehemiah 3:30
After him Hananiah the son of Shelemiah and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph repaired a second section. After him Meshullam the son of Berechiah repaired opposite his chamber.
- Nehemiah 12:44
And on that day men were appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the contributions, for the first part and for the tithes, to gather into them, from the fields of the cities, the portions of the law for the priests and for the Levites; for the rejoicing of Judah was over the priests and over the Levites who stood in their place.
- Nehemiah 13:7
and I came to Jerusalem, and I understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in making him a chamber in the courts of the house of Elohim.