H2346: חוֹמָה
chôwmâh · pronounced kho-maw' · “wall”
Definition
a wall of protection
KJV translates it as: wall, walled.
Word origin: feminine active participle of an unused root apparently meaning to join;
Extended definition
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H2346 is translated
- wall ×44
- the wall of ×25
- a wall ×11
- your ×11
- the walls of ×10
- city wall ×8
- its ×5
- two walls ×4
- was a wall ×3
- walls ×3
- a wall of ×3
- is a wall ×2
Bible verses with H2346 (chôwmâh)
Chôwmâh appears in 123 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Exodus 14:22
And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
- Exodus 14:29
But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
- Leviticus 25:29
And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
- Leviticus 25:30
And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.
- Leviticus 25:31
But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.
- Deuteronomy 3:5
All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
- Deuteronomy 28:52
And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.
- Joshua 2:15
Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
- Joshua 6:5
And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.
- Joshua 6:20
So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
- 1 Samuel 25:16
They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
- 1 Samuel 31:10
And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth–shan.
- 1 Samuel 31:12
All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth–shan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
- 2 Samuel 11:20
And if so be that the king’s wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?
- 2 Samuel 11:21
Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
- 2 Samuel 11:24
And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king’s servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
- 2 Samuel 18:24
And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.
- 2 Samuel 20:15
And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth–maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
- 2 Samuel 20:21
The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.
- 1 Kings 3:1
And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
- 1 Kings 4:13
The son of Geber, in Ramoth–gilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars:
- 1 Kings 9:15
And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
- 1 Kings 20:30
But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Ben–hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
- 2 Kings 3:27
Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
- 2 Kings 6:26
And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
All 123 references
- 2 Kings 6:30
- 2 Kings 14:13
- 2 Kings 18:26
- 2 Kings 18:27
- 2 Kings 25:4
- 2 Kings 25:10
- 2 Chronicles 8:5
- 2 Chronicles 14:7
- 2 Chronicles 25:23
- 2 Chronicles 26:6
- 2 Chronicles 27:3
- 2 Chronicles 32:5
- 2 Chronicles 32:18
- 2 Chronicles 33:14
- 2 Chronicles 36:19
- Nehemiah 1:3
- Nehemiah 2:8
- Nehemiah 2:13
- Nehemiah 2:15
- Nehemiah 2:17
- Nehemiah 3:8
- Nehemiah 3:13
- Nehemiah 3:15
- Nehemiah 3:27
- Nehemiah 4:1
- Nehemiah 4:3
- Nehemiah 4:6
- Nehemiah 4:7
- Nehemiah 4:10
- Nehemiah 4:13
- Nehemiah 4:15
- Nehemiah 4:17
- Nehemiah 4:19
- Nehemiah 5:16
- Nehemiah 6:1
- Nehemiah 6:6
- Nehemiah 6:15
- Nehemiah 7:1
- Nehemiah 12:27
- Nehemiah 12:30
- Nehemiah 12:31
- Nehemiah 12:37
- Nehemiah 12:38
- Nehemiah 13:21
- Psalms 51:18
- Psalms 55:10
- Proverbs 18:11
- Proverbs 25:28
- Song of Solomon 5:7
- Song of Solomon 8:9
- Song of Solomon 8:10
- Isaiah 2:15
- Isaiah 22:10
- Isaiah 22:11
- Isaiah 25:12
- Isaiah 26:1
- Isaiah 30:13
- Isaiah 36:11
- Isaiah 36:12
- Isaiah 49:16
- Isaiah 56:5
- Isaiah 60:10
- Isaiah 60:18
- Isaiah 62:6
- Jeremiah 1:15
- Jeremiah 1:18
- Jeremiah 15:20
- Jeremiah 21:4
- Jeremiah 39:4
- Jeremiah 39:8
- Jeremiah 49:27
- Jeremiah 50:15
- Jeremiah 51:12
- Jeremiah 51:44
- Jeremiah 51:58
- Jeremiah 52:7
- Jeremiah 52:14
- Lamentations 2:7
- Lamentations 2:8
- Lamentations 2:18
- Ezekiel 26:4
- Ezekiel 26:9
- Ezekiel 26:10
- Ezekiel 26:12
- Ezekiel 27:11
- Ezekiel 38:11
- Ezekiel 38:20
- Ezekiel 40:5
- Ezekiel 42:20
- Joel 2:7
- Joel 2:9
- Amos 1:7
- Amos 1:10
- Amos 1:14
- Amos 7:7
- Nahum 2:5
- Nahum 3:8
- Zechariah 2:5