Word Study · Strong's H2246 · Hebrew

חֹבָב

Chobab

kho-bawb'

Strong's 1890 spelling: Chôbâb

“Chobab, father-in-law of Moses”

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

Chobab, father-in-law of Moses

Rendered in the KJV as

Hobab.

2
occurrencesin the Old Testament
2 of 39
Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
2
inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 2 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 2

חֹבָ֖ב1
לְ֠חֹבָב1

How it is rendered · 2

Hobab1
to Hobab1

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

How it parses · 2

proper noun (a name)1
preposition + proper noun (a name)1

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HNpm · 1
HR/Npm · 1

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The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Numbers1 of 2 · 50%
Judges1 of 2 · 50%

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Numbers1 occurrence

Numbers 10:29לְ֠חֹבָבlechoopreposition + proper noun (a name)Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”here: to Hobab

Judges1 occurrence

Judges 4:11חֹבָ֖בchovavproper noun (a name)Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent by the great tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh.here: Hobab

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