תָּאtâʼ

chamber (Ezekiel 40:21; Ezekiel 40:1-200; Ezekiel 40:7; 1 Kings 4:28; Ezekiel 40:29)

Pronunciation: taw · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8372

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 13 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Kings 14:28 Whenever the king went to the Temple of the Lord, the guards would also take the shields and then return them to the guardroom.
  • 2 Chronicles 12:11 Whenever the king went to the Temple of the Lord, the guards would also take the shields and then return them to the guardroom.
  • Ezekiel 40:7 There were guard alcoves on each side built into the gateway passage. Each of these alcoves was 10 1⁄2 feet square, with a distance between them of 8 3⁄4 feet along the passage wall. The gateway’s inner threshold, which led to the entry room at the inner end of the gateway passage, was 10 1⁄2 feet front to back.
  • Ezekiel 40:10 There were three guard alcoves on each side of the gateway passage. Each had the same measurements, and the dividing walls separating them were also identical.
  • Ezekiel 40:12 In front of each of the guard alcoves was a 21-inch curb. The alcoves themselves were 10 1⁄2 feet on each side.
  • Ezekiel 40:13 Then he measured the entire width of the gateway, measuring the distance between the back walls of facing guard alcoves; this distance was 43 3⁄4 feet.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).