H2426: חֵיל
chêyl · pronounced khale · “rampart”
Definition
an army; also (by analogy,) an intrenchment
KJV translates it as: army, bulwark, host, [phrase] poor, rampart, trench, wall.
Word origin: or (shortened) חֵל; a collateral form of H2428 (חַיִל);
Extended definition
1a) rampart
1b) fortress
Also means: che.lah (חֵילָה "bulwark" H2430)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H2426 is translated
- rampart ×3
- the rampart of ×1
- your ×1
- a rampart ×1
- fortress ×1
Bible verses with H2426 (chêyl)
Chêyl appears in 7 verses.
- 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.
- 1 Kings 21:23
And of Jezebel also spake the Lord, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
- Psalms 122:7
Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
- Isaiah 26:1
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
- Lamentations 2:8
The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
- Obadiah 1:20
And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.
- Nahum 3:8
Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?