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חֹדֶשׁ

chodesh

kho'-desh

Strong's 1890 spelling: chôdesh

the new moon

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

the new moon; by implication, a month

Rendered in the KJV as

month(-ly), new moon.

  • 284
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 26 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 86
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 284 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 86

  • לַחֹ֣דֶשׁ28
  • בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁ22
  • לַחֹ֑דֶשׁ21
  • חֹ֣דֶשׁ15
  • לַחֹ֔דֶשׁ11
  • בַּחֹ֥דֶשׁ10
  • חֹ֖דֶשׁ8
  • לַחֹ֥דֶשׁ8
  • חֹ֥דֶשׁ7
  • בַּחֹ֙דֶשׁ֙6
  • הַחֹ֣דֶשׁ6
  • חֳדָשִׁ֑ים6

and 74 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 46

  • of the month82
  • in the month53
  • months29
  • a month14
  • for the month10
  • the month8
  • [is] [the] month of7
  • month7
  • the new moon7
  • in [the] month of6
  • and in the month5
  • [was] the month4

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 23

  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular147
  • noun · masculine plural29
  • noun · masculine singular29
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular19
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)14
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)10
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural6
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular6
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular4
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural3
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HRd/Ncmsa · 147
  • HNcmpa · 29
  • HNcmsa · 29
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 19
  • HNcmsc · 14
  • HR/Ncmsc · 10
  • HC/Rd/Ncmpa · 6
  • HC/Rd/Ncmsa · 6
  • HR/Ncmsa · 4
  • HNcmpc/Sp2mp · 3
  • HNcmpc/Sp3ms · 2
  • HR/Ncmpc · 2

All 284, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Numbers carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis11 occurrences
Exodus18 occurrences
Leviticus15 occurrences
Numbers38 occurrences
Deuteronomy4 occurrences
Joshua2 occurrences
Judges5 occurrences
1 Samuel7 occurrences
2 Samuel5 occurrences
1 Kings14 occurrences
2 Kings12 occurrences
1 Chronicles21 occurrences
2 Chronicles19 occurrences
Ezra13 occurrences
Nehemiah7 occurrences
Esther25 occurrences
Job2 occurrences
Psalms1 occurrence
Isaiah5 occurrences
Jeremiah18 occurrences
Ezekiel27 occurrences
Daniel1 occurrence
Hosea2 occurrences
Amos2 occurrences
Haggai5 occurrences
Zechariah5 occurrences

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled חֹדֶשׁ

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).