חוֹמָה
cho.mah
“wall”
Definition
a wall of protection
feminine active participle of an unused root apparently meaning to join;
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
חוֹמָה appears 109 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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.
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”
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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.
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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