lish.kah denotes a room or set of rooms in buildings, including spaces used for priestly service, storage, and meetings.

The term denotes individual rooms and groups of rooms within larger structures. The occurrences place such spaces in the house of God and its courts, in a temple complex with entrances and measured dimensions, and in settings where people meet, documents are kept, or offerings and other items are placed.

1. Rooms within a larger building complex · dominant

   Plural forms occur for multiple rooms in a building or court setting: in 1 Chronicles 23:28 the APB renders rooms connected with service in the house of the LORD as “chambers,” and Ezekiel 42:13 describes northern and southern rooms where priests eat and lay the most holy things. Singular construct forms occur in clauses locating a particular room: in Jeremiah 36:20 the scroll is deposited in the chamber of Elishama the secretary, while Nehemiah 13:5 describes a large room in which offerings, articles, and produce had previously been stored.

   1 Chronicles 23:28Ezekiel 42:13Jeremiah 36:20Nehemiah 13:5Ezekiel 40:38Ezra 10:6

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB regularly presents the term as “chamber” or “chambers,” including rooms associated with courts, priests, officials, and stored items. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these English labels confirm the settings without establishing a separate rendering for every occurrence.