a.suph denotes storage locations, including storehouses and storage associated with gates.

The attested forms refer to storage locations: in 1 Chronicles they occur in assignments involving a house and personnel directed to the storehouses, while Nehemiah 12:25 places custody in storehouses of the gates.

1. Storage locations and gate-associated storehouses · dominant

   The masculine plural absolute forms in 1 Chronicles 26:15 and 1 Chronicles 26:17 occur in assignments involving a house and personnel directed to the storehouses; the APB renders “the house of the storehouses” and “to the storehouses.” In Nehemiah 12:25, the masculine plural construct form occurs in the phrase concerning custody in the storehouses of the gates; the APB renders “in the storehouses of the gates.”

   1 Chronicles 26:151 Chronicles 26:17Nehemiah 12:25

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the forms as “storehouses” in all three verses, expanding the Nehemiah clause as “the storehouses of the gates.” This confirms the setting without isolating every element of the Hebrew phrase.