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HebrewH2772Noun

חֹרֹנִי

cho.ro.ni

3Occurrences
H2772Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a Choronite or inhabitant of Choronaim

patrial from H2773 (חֹרֹנַיִם);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Someone descended from Horon(?), first mentioned at § Horonite = "native of Horonaim" 1) an inhabitant of Horonaim in a) the designation of Sanballat, the opponent of Nehemiah

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--LG

Full Description

N:N--LG

Occurrences

חֹרֹנִי appears 3 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Nehemiah
3

Key Passages

Nehemiah 13:28BSB

Even one of the sons of Jehoiada son of Eliashib the high priest had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I drove him away from me.

Nehemiah 2:10BSB

But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard about this, they were deeply disturbed that someone had come to seek the well-being of the Israelites.

Nehemiah 2:19BSB

But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

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