מִסְכְּנוֹת
storage
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 6 times (86%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct 1 time (14%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 7 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H4543 appears — 7 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus 1 verse
1 Kings 1 verse
2 Chronicles 5 verses
- 2 Chronicles 8:4 הַֽ/מִּסְכְּנ֔וֹת ptcl def.art + n c fp He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store-cities, which he built in Hamath.
- 2 Chronicles 8:6 הַֽ/מִּסְכְּנוֹת֙ ptcl def.art + n c fp and Baalath, and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
- 2 Chronicles 16:4 מִסְכְּנ֖וֹת n c fp cs Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel Maim, and all the store-cities of Naphtali.
- 2 Chronicles 17:12 מִסְכְּנֽוֹת n c fp Jehoshaphat grew great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles and cities of store.
- 2 Chronicles 32:28 וּ/מִ֨סְכְּנ֔וֹת conj + n c fp store-houses also for the increase of grain and new wine and oil; and stalls for all manner of animals, and flocks in folds.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
מסכנה — transliterated miçkᵉnâh — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “storage.” More than two-thirds of its appearances fall in 2 Chronicles. It appears 7 verses across 3 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. Debuting at Exodus 1:11, it then recurs through the corpus. Related forms include כנס and כנש. See the sense tree, 7-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4543 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,835
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,835 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Chronicles 5 verses 71%
- Exodus 1 verse 14%
- 1 Kings 1 verse 14%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 7 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 5 verses · 71%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 14%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 14%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: All the store 3×, Store 2×
- American Standard Version: All the store 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Store 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Stores 3×, Storehouses 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4543 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4543 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4543 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4543 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- supply, storage, storage house, magazine
Word origin
מִסְכְּנוֹת n.f.pl. supply, storage
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from כנס (kânaç) (H3664) — to gather.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
סַכָּנָה
- (סָכַן II) trouble, persecution, danger. Keth. 3ᵇ ומס׳ ואילך and since the days of danger (the Hadrianic persecution when the Romans enforced the jus primae noctis). Ib. האי ס׳ אונס הוא you call that risk of life (for religion’s sake)? This is rather assault (which no woman is bound to sacrifice her life in resisting). Ib. משום דאיכא צנועות … ואתיין לידי ס׳ because there are chaste women who would rather suffer death, and their lives might be endangered. Succ. 14ᵇ; Sabb. 21ᵇ, a. fr. בשעת הס׳ in times of religious persecution. Y. Shebi. I, 52ᵈ top מעות של ס׳ coins of the revolution (confiscated coins). Bets. 22ᵃ סַכָּנַת נפשות risk of life (serious illness). Ib. דבר שיש בו ס׳ a case of serious sickness; Succ. 26ᵃ חולה שיש בו ס׳. Y. Ab. Zar. II, 40ᶜ top אופיון ס׳, v. אוּפְיוֹן. Ib., a. e. אהן סומקא ס׳ an inflammation of the eye is a case of serious illness (with regard to breaking the Sabbath laws); a. v. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms H4543 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַֽ/מִּסְכְּנוֹת֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Kings 9:19 | 2 |
| הַֽ/מִּסְכְּנ֔וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 8:4 | 1 |
| וּ/מִ֨סְכְּנ֔וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 32:28 | 1 |
| מִסְכְּנ֖וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | 2 Chronicles 16:4 | 1 |
| מִסְכְּנֽוֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 17:12 | 1 |
| מִסְכְּנוֹת֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 1:11 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4543, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 6 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 7 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
