H2428: חַיִל
chayil · pronounced khah'-yil · “strength: soldiers”
Definition
probably a force, whether of men, means or other resources; an army, wealth, virtue, valor, strength
KJV translates it as: able, activity, ([phrase]) army, band of men (soldiers), company, (great) forces, goods, host, might, power, riches, strength, strong, substance, train, ([phrase]) valiant(-ly), valour, virtuous(-ly), war, worthy(-ily).
Word origin: from H2342 (חוּל);
Extended definition
1) strength, might, efficiency, wealth, army
1a) strength
1b) ability, efficiency
1c) wealth
1d) force, army
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H2428 is translated
- strength ×72
- the army of ×27
- his ×22
- an army ×20
- ability ×16
- armies ×14
- army ×13
- wealth ×10
- your ×10
- their ×9
- the wealth of ×8
- strengths ×6
Bible verses with H2428 (chayil)
Chayil appears in 231 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 34:29
And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.
- Genesis 47:6
The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
- Exodus 14:4
And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord. And they did so.
- Exodus 14:9
But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi–hahiroth, before Baal–zephon.
- Exodus 14:17
And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
- Exodus 14:28
And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
- Exodus 15:4
Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
- Exodus 18:21
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
- Exodus 18:25
And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
- Numbers 24:18
And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.
- Numbers 31:9
And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.
- Numbers 31:14
And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.
- Deuteronomy 3:18
And I commanded you at that time, saying, The Lord your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.
- Deuteronomy 8:17
And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.
- Deuteronomy 8:18
But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
- Deuteronomy 11:4
And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the Lord hath destroyed them unto this day;
- Deuteronomy 33:11
Bless, Lord, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.
- Joshua 1:14
Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but ye shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and help them;
- Joshua 6:2
And the Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
- Joshua 8:3
So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.
- Joshua 10:7
So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour.
- Judges 3:29
And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.
- Judges 6:12
And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.
- Judges 11:1
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
- Judges 18:2
And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.
All 231 references
- Judges 20:44
- Judges 20:46
- Judges 21:10
- Ruth 2:1
- Ruth 3:11
- Ruth 4:11
- 1 Samuel 2:4
- 1 Samuel 9:1
- 1 Samuel 10:26
- 1 Samuel 14:48
- 1 Samuel 14:52
- 1 Samuel 16:18
- 1 Samuel 17:20
- 1 Samuel 18:17
- 1 Samuel 31:12
- 2 Samuel 2:7
- 2 Samuel 8:9
- 2 Samuel 11:16
- 2 Samuel 13:28
- 2 Samuel 17:10
- 2 Samuel 22:33
- 2 Samuel 22:40
- 2 Samuel 23:20
- 2 Samuel 24:2
- 2 Samuel 24:4
- 2 Samuel 24:9
- 1 Kings 1:42
- 1 Kings 1:52
- 1 Kings 10:2
- 1 Kings 11:28
- 1 Kings 15:20
- 1 Kings 20:1
- 1 Kings 20:19
- 1 Kings 20:25
- 2 Kings 2:16
- 2 Kings 5:1
- 2 Kings 6:14
- 2 Kings 6:15
- 2 Kings 7:6
- 2 Kings 9:5
- 2 Kings 11:15
- 2 Kings 15:20
- 2 Kings 18:17
- 2 Kings 24:14
- 2 Kings 24:16
- 2 Kings 25:1
- 2 Kings 25:5
- 2 Kings 25:10
- 2 Kings 25:23
- 2 Kings 25:26
- 1 Chronicles 5:18
- 1 Chronicles 5:24
- 1 Chronicles 7:2
- 1 Chronicles 7:5
- 1 Chronicles 7:7
- 1 Chronicles 7:9
- 1 Chronicles 7:11
- 1 Chronicles 7:40
- 1 Chronicles 8:40
- 1 Chronicles 9:13
- 1 Chronicles 10:12
- 1 Chronicles 11:22
- 1 Chronicles 11:26
- 1 Chronicles 12:8
- 1 Chronicles 12:21
- 1 Chronicles 12:25
- 1 Chronicles 12:28
- 1 Chronicles 12:30
- 1 Chronicles 18:9
- 1 Chronicles 20:1
- 1 Chronicles 26:6
- 1 Chronicles 26:7
- 1 Chronicles 26:8
- 1 Chronicles 26:9
- 1 Chronicles 26:30
- 1 Chronicles 26:31
- 1 Chronicles 26:32
- 1 Chronicles 28:1
- 2 Chronicles 9:1
- 2 Chronicles 13:3
- 2 Chronicles 14:8
- 2 Chronicles 14:9
- 2 Chronicles 16:4
- 2 Chronicles 16:7
- 2 Chronicles 16:8
- 2 Chronicles 17:2
- 2 Chronicles 17:13
- 2 Chronicles 17:14
- 2 Chronicles 17:16
- 2 Chronicles 17:17
- 2 Chronicles 23:14
- 2 Chronicles 24:23
- 2 Chronicles 24:24
- 2 Chronicles 25:6
- 2 Chronicles 26:11
- 2 Chronicles 26:12
- 2 Chronicles 26:13
- 2 Chronicles 26:17
- 2 Chronicles 28:6
- 2 Chronicles 32:21
- 2 Chronicles 33:14
- Ezra 8:22
- Nehemiah 2:9
- Nehemiah 4:2
- Nehemiah 11:6
- Nehemiah 11:14
- Esther 1:3
- Esther 8:11
- Job 5:5
- Job 15:29
- Job 20:15
- Job 20:18
- Job 21:7
- Job 31:25
- Psalms 10:10
- Psalms 18:32
- Psalms 18:39
- Psalms 33:16
- Psalms 33:17
- Psalms 49:6
- Psalms 49:10
- Psalms 59:11
- Psalms 60:12
- Psalms 62:10
- Psalms 73:12
- Psalms 76:5
- Psalms 84:7
- Psalms 108:13
- Psalms 110:3
- Psalms 118:15
- Psalms 118:16
- Psalms 136:15
- Proverbs 12:4
- Proverbs 13:22
- Proverbs 31:3
- Proverbs 31:10
- Proverbs 31:29
- Ecclesiastes 10:10
- Ecclesiastes 12:3
- Isaiah 5:22
- Isaiah 8:4
- Isaiah 10:14
- Isaiah 30:6
- Isaiah 36:2
- Isaiah 43:17
- Isaiah 60:5
- Isaiah 60:11
- Isaiah 61:6
- Jeremiah 15:13
- Jeremiah 17:3
- Jeremiah 32:2
- Jeremiah 34:1
- Jeremiah 34:7
- Jeremiah 34:21
- Jeremiah 35:11
- Jeremiah 37:5
- Jeremiah 37:7
- Jeremiah 37:10
- Jeremiah 37:11
- Jeremiah 38:3
- Jeremiah 39:1
- Jeremiah 39:5
- Jeremiah 40:7
- Jeremiah 40:13
- Jeremiah 41:11
- Jeremiah 41:13
- Jeremiah 41:16
- Jeremiah 42:1
- Jeremiah 42:8
- Jeremiah 43:4
- Jeremiah 43:5
- Jeremiah 46:2
- Jeremiah 46:22
- Jeremiah 48:14
- Jeremiah 52:4
- Jeremiah 52:8
- Jeremiah 52:14
- Ezekiel 17:17
- Ezekiel 26:12
- Ezekiel 27:10
- Ezekiel 27:11
- Ezekiel 28:4
- Ezekiel 28:5
- Ezekiel 29:18
- Ezekiel 29:19
- Ezekiel 32:31
- Ezekiel 37:10
- Ezekiel 38:4
- Ezekiel 38:15
- Daniel 11:7
- Daniel 11:10
- Daniel 11:13
- Daniel 11:25
- Daniel 11:26
- Joel 2:11
- Joel 2:22
- Joel 2:25
- Obadiah 1:11
- Obadiah 1:13
- Micah 4:13
- Nahum 2:3
- Habakkuk 3:19
- Zephaniah 1:13
- Zechariah 4:6
- Zechariah 9:4
- Zechariah 14:14