חָנָה
cha.nah
“to camp”
Definition
properly, to incline; by implication, to decline (of the slanting rays of evening); specifically, to pitch atent; gen. to encamp (for abode or siege)
a primitive root (compare H2603 (חָנַן));
- to decline, incline, encamp, bend down, lay siege against 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to decline 1a2) to encamp
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Occurrences
חָנָה appears 133 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Three of the thirty chief men went down to David, to the rock at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
The Egyptians—all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots, horsemen and troops—pursued the Israelites and overtook them as they camped by the sea near Pi-hahiroth, opposite Baal-zephon.
So Joshua moved on from Lachish to Eglon, and all Israel with him. They laid siege to it and fought against it.
Then the Israelites traveled on and camped in the plains of Moab near the Jordan, across from Jericho.
They set out from Haradah and camped at Makheloth.
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