HebrewH2346Noun (Feminine)

חוֹמָה

cho.mah

109Occurrences
H2346Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a wall of protection

feminine active participle of an unused root apparently meaning to join;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
wall

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

H:N-F

Full Description

H:N-F

Occurrences

חוֹמָה appears 109 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Nehemiah
20
Isaiah
13
Jeremiah
13
Ezk
9
2 Chronicles
8
2 Kings
8
2 Samuel
6
1 Kings
4

Key Passages

1 Kings 20:30BSB

The rest of them fled into the city of Aphek, where the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the remaining men. Ben-hadad also fled to the city and hid in an inner room.

2 Kings 6:26BSB

As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”

Ezk 38:11BSB

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Jeremiah 39:4BSB

When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled. They left the city at night by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls, and they went out along the route to the Arabah.

Nehemiah 1:3BSB

And they told me, “The remnant who survived the exile are there in the province, in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”

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