תָּא
chamber
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
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
4 distinct verses where H8372 appears in the Absolute state, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Ezekiel 4 verses
- Ezekiel 40:7 וְ/הַ/תָּ֗א הַ/תָּאִ֖ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c mp Every lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad; and [the space] between the lodges was five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.
- Ezekiel 40:12 הַ/תָּאוֹת֙ וְ/הַ/תָּ֕א ptcl def.art + n c mp conj + ptcl def.art + n c ms and a border before the lodges, one cubit [on this side], and a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.
- Ezekiel 40:13 הַ/תָּא֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits; door against door.
- Ezekiel 40:16 הַ/תָּאִ֡ים ptcl def.art + n c mp There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches; and windows were round about inward; and on [each] post were palm trees.
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.
At its core, תא (tâʼ) means “chamber.” The word gravitates to Ezekiel (82%), then 1 Kings and 2 Chronicles. It turns up in 11 verses across 3 books, an uncommon footprint. It first appears in 1 Kings 14:28. Translators differ — “little chambers” in the King James Version, then “gate chambers” (Berean Standard Bible) and “chambers” (unfoldingWord Literal Text), as the renderings breakdown shows. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8372 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 →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,671
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,671 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezekiel 9 verses 82%
- 1 Kings 1 verse 9%
- 2 Chronicles 1 verse 9%
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 11 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 10 verses · 91%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 9%
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: Little chambers 7×, Chamber 2×
- American Standard Version: Lodges 7×, - chamber 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Gate chambers 7×, Each gate chamber 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Chambers 7×, Chamber of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8372 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 H8372 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 H8372 across 11 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8372 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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.
- chamber, guardroom
Word origin
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.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from תאה (tâʼâh) (H8376) — to mark out.
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.
תָּא
- II, imperat. of אֲתָא, q. v.
תָּא I
- (b. h.; = תאו, v. אָוָה II; cmp. b. h. תָּאָה) cell, esp. compartment back of the Holy of Holies. Midd. IV, 7; Yoma 52ᵃ.—Midd. IV, 2; a. fr.—B. Bath. 61ᵃ an extension has three names: יציע … תא yatsiʿa, tselʿa, ta.— Pl. תָּאִים, תָּאִין. Midr. Till. to Ps. XVIII, 28 בת׳ היה טמון Joash was kept hidden in the compartments of the Temple.
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 13 distinct written forms H8372 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ו/תא/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 40:21 | 3 |
| וְ/תָאָ֞י/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 40:29 | 2 |
| תָּ֥א | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | 1 Kings 14:28 | 2 |
| הַ/תָּא֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 40:13 | 1 |
| הַ/תָּאִ֖ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 40:7 | 1 |
| הַ/תָּאִ֡ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 40:16 | 1 |
| הַ/תָּאוֹת֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 40:12 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/תָּ֕א | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 40:12 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/תָּ֗א | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 40:7 | 1 |
| וְ/תָאֵ֨י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 40:10 | 1 |
| וְ/תָאָ֗י/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 40:21 | 1 |
| תָּאָי/ו֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 40:36 | 1 |
| תא/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 40:36 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8372, 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.
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Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 10 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 11 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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