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# תָּא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8372

**chamber** — used 13 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

chamber [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8372/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תָּא: n.m. chamber [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8372/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 40, 21 chamber (NH id.; perhaps Aramaism, cf. Arabic ثَوَى dwell, مَثْوًى abode (? akin to أَوَى turn aside to lodge, אַוְונָא, ܐܰܘܳܘܢܳܐ lodging-place), Aramaic תָּוָן (in Ez 40 תְּוָא, תָּוַיָּא), ܬܰܘܳܢܳܐ room, chamber);—ת׳ abs. Ez 40:7 +, cstr. 1 K 14:28; sf. תאו Ez 40:21 Kt (Qr תָּאָיו), so v 29, 33, 36; pl. תָּאִים v 7 +; תָּאוֹת v 12; cstr. תָּאֵי v 10;—chamber: תָּא הָרָצִים 1 K 14:28 chamber of the guards = 2 Ch 12:11; in Ezekiel’s temple: Ez 40:7(×2), 10, 12(×2), 13, 16, 21, 29, 33, 36.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: chambers (7); chamber (2); the guardroom (2).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 14:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.14.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.14.28/#tree)

וַיְהִ֛י מִדֵּי־בֹ֥א הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ בֵּ֣ית יְהוָ֑ה יִשָּׂאוּם֙ הָֽרָצִ֔ים וֶהֱשִׁיב֖וּם אֶל־תָּ֥א הָרָצִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and it.was as often.as went the king the.house of.Yahweh they carried.them the runners and they returned.them to the.guardroom of the.runners

*JPS 1917:* And it was so, that as oft as the king went into the house of the LORD, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber.

[Ezekiel 40:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.40.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.40.13/#tree)

וַיָּ֣מָד אֶת־הַשַּׁ֗עַר מִגַּ֤ג הַתָּא֙ לְגַגּ֔וֹ רֹ֕חַב עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וְחָמֵ֖שׁ אַמּ֑וֹת פֶּ֖תַח נֶ֥גֶד פָּֽתַח׃

*Word for word:* and he.measured (et) the gate from the.roof of the.chamber to roof its breadth twenty and five cubits entrance before entrance

*JPS 1917:* And he measured the gate from the roof of the one cell to the roof of the other, a breadth of five and twenty cubits; door against door.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8372.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8372/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).