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HebrewH2691Noun

חָצֵר

cha.tser

156Occurrences
H2691Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a yard (as inclosed by a fence); also a hamlet (as similarly surrounded with walls)

(masculine and feminine); from H2690 (חָצַר) in its original sense;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
  1. court, enclosure 1a) enclosures 1b) court

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

H:N

Full Description

Hebrew Noun

Occurrences

חָצֵר appears 156 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Ezk
38
Joshua
31
Exodus
19
Jeremiah
14
1 Chronicles
8
2 Chronicles
7
Esther
7
Nehemiah
7

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 23:28BSB

but their duty was to assist the descendants of Aaron with the service of the house of the LORD, being responsible for the courts and chambers, the purification of all the holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God,

Esther 6:5BSB

So the king’s attendants answered him, “Haman is there, standing in the court.”“Bring him in,” ordered the king.

Ezk 40:32BSB

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Jeremiah 19:14BSB

Then Jeremiah returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and proclaimed to all the people,

Joshua 18:28BSB

Zelah, Haeleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath-jearim —fourteen cities, along with their villages.This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.