Word Study · Strong's H2426 · Hebrew
חֵיל
chel
khale
Strong's 1890 spelling: chêyl
“an army”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
an army; also (by analogy,) an intrenchment
Rendered in the KJV as
army, bulwark, host, [phrase] poor, rampart, trench, wall.
- 7occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 7 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 7inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 7 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 7
- בְּחֵילֵ֑ךְ1
- בְּחֵ֥ל1
- בַּחֵ֑ל1
- הַֽחֵל־1
- וָחֵֽל׃1
- חֵ֣יל1
- חֵ֥ל1
How it is rendered · 6
- rampart2
- and a rampart1
- by the rampart1
- in [the] rampart of1
- in rampart your1
- the fortress1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 7
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1
- noun · masculine singular1
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HC/Ncmsa · 1
- HNcmsa · 1
- HNcmsc · 1
- HR/Ncmsc · 1
- HR/Ncmsc/Sp2fs · 1
- HRd/Ncmsa · 1
- HTd/Ncmsa · 1
All 7, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
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