Hebrew noun (feminine) · H2346
חוֹמָה
chomahkho-maw'
wall
133 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chôwmâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2346is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 21 of 39Old Testament books
- 88spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2346
a wall of protection
The King James renders it: wall, walled.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chomah is rendered "wall". It stands 133 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-one books.
- Thirty-two of the uses stand in Nehemiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 14:22and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.
- The Greek text spells it eighty-eight different ways.
The first use
and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.
Exodus 14:22חֹמָ֔ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in twenty-one of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the wall28
- a wall14
- wall of14
- walls your10
- walls of8
- the city wall7
- wall5
- on the wall4
- on wall of4
- the two walls4
- to the wall4
- walls its3
and 23 more, 133 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 133, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
88 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- חוֹמַ֣ת9
- הַ֣חוֹמָ֔ה7
- הַחוֹמָֽה׃6
- בְּחוֹמַ֣ת4
- הַחוֹמָ֔ה4
- חוֹמַ֥ת4
- הַֽחוֹמָ֔ה3
- חוֹמָ֔ה3
- חוֹמָ֣ה3
- הַחוֹמָ֥ה2
- הַ֣חֹמָ֔ה2
- הַחֹמָ֑ה2
and 76 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular35HTd/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular19HNcfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)17HNcfsc
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular10HRd/Ncfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)9HR/Ncfsc
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)8HNcfpc
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular8HNcfpc/Sp2fs
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine dual4HTd/Ncfda
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular3HNcfpc/Sp3fs
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HC/R/Ncfsc
- noun · feminine plural2HNcfpa
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular2HNcfpc/Sp2ms
Exodus
two uses
and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.
- חֹמָ֔הchomahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a wall
But the Israelites had walked through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.
- חֹמָ֔הchomahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a wall
Leviticus
three uses
If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains his right of redemption until a full year after its sale; during that year it may be redeemed.
- חוֹמָ֔הchomahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a wall
If it is not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently transferred to its buyer and his descendants. It is not to be released in the Jubilee.
- חֹמָ֗הchomahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a wall
But houses in villages with no walls around them are to be considered as open fields. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
- חֹמָה֙chomahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a wall
Deuteronomy
two uses
All these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more unwalled villages.
- חוֹמָ֥הchomahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wall
They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.
- חֹמֹתֶ֙יךָ֙chomoteikhanoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: walls your
Joshua
four uses
Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window, since the house where she lived was built into the wall of the city.
- הַֽחוֹמָ֔הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the city wall
- וּבַֽחוֹמָ֖הuvachomahconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: and in the city wall
And when there is a long blast of the ram’s horn and you hear its sound, have all the people give a mighty shout. Then the wall of the city will collapse and all your people will charge straight into the city.”
- חוֹמַ֤תchomatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wall of
So when the rams’ horns sounded, the people shouted. When they heard the blast of the horn, the people gave a great shout, and the wall collapsed. Then all the people charged straight into the city and captured it.
- הַֽחוֹמָ֜הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the city wall
1 Samuel
three uses
They were a wall around us, both day and night, the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.
- חוֹמָה֙chomahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a wall
They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.
- בְּחוֹמַ֖תbechomatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: on wall of
all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.
- מֵחוֹמַ֖תmechomatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from wall of
2 Samuel
seven uses
if the king’s anger flares, he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Did you not realize they would shoot from atop the wall?
- הַחוֹמָֽה׃hachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
Who was the one to strike Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who dropped an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If so, then you are to say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.’”
- הַֽחוֹמָה֙hachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
- הַֽחוֹמָ֑הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall, and some of the king’s servants were killed. And your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.”
- הַחוֹמָ֔הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
Now David was sitting between the two gates when the watchman went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall, looked out, and saw a man running alone.
- הַ֣חוֹמָ֔הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
And Joab’s troops came and besieged Sheba in Abel-beth-maacah and built a siege ramp against the outer rampart of the city. As all the troops with Joab were battering the wall to topple it,
- הַחוֹמָֽה׃hachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
That is not the case. But a man named Sheba son of Bichri, from the hill country of Ephraim, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Deliver him alone, and I will depart from the city.” “Look,” the woman replied, “his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”
- הַחוֹמָֽה׃hachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
1 Kings
four uses
Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the LORD, as well as the wall around Jerusalem.
- חוֹמַ֥תchomatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wall of
Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead belonged to him, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan with its sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);
- חוֹמָ֖הchomahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a wall
This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
- חוֹמַ֣תchomatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wall of
The rest of them fled into the city of Aphek, where the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the remaining men. Ben-hadad also fled to the city and hid in an inner room.
- הַחוֹמָ֔הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
2 Kings
eight uses
So he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him, and offered him as a burnt offering on the city wall. And there was great fury against the Israelites, so they withdrew and returned to their own land.
- הַ֣חֹמָ֔הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”
- הַחֹמָ֑הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. And as he passed by on the wall, the people saw the sackcloth under his clothes next to his skin.
- הַחֹמָ֑הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah. Then Jehoash went to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.
- בְּחוֹמַ֨תbechomatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wall of
Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, along with Shebnah and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak with us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
- הַחֹמָֽה׃hachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
- הַ֣חֹמָ֔הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,
- הַחֹמֹתַ֗יִםhachomotayimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine dualtagged: the two walls
And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
- חוֹמֹ֥תchomotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: walls of
2 Chronicles
twelve uses
He rebuilt Upper and Lower Beth-horon as fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,
- חוֹמ֖וֹתchomotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: walls
So he said to the people of Judah, “Let us build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, with doors and bars. The land is still ours because we have sought the LORD our God. We have sought Him and He has given us rest on every side.” So they built and prospered.
- חוֹמָ֣הchomahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wall
There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.
- בְּחוֹמַ֣תbechomatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wall of
Uzziah went out to wage war against the Philistines, and he tore down the walls of Gath, Jabneh, and Ashdod. Then he built cities near Ashdod and among the Philistines.
- ח֣וֹמַתchomatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wall of
- חוֹמַ֣תchomatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wall of
- חוֹמַ֣תchomatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wall of
Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD, and he worked extensively on the wall at the hill of Ophel.
- וּבְחוֹמַ֥תuvechomatconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and on wall of
Then Hezekiah worked resolutely to rebuild all the broken sections of the wall and to raise up towers on it. He also built an outer wall and reinforced the supporting terraces of the City of David, and he produced an abundance of weapons and shields.
- הַחוֹמָ֨הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the city wall
- הַחוֹמָ֣הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the city wall
Then the Assyrians called out loudly in Hebrew to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten and terrify them in order to capture the city.
- הַֽחוֹמָ֔הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
After this, Manasseh rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David from west of Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate, and he brought it around the hill of Ophel and heightened it considerably. He also stationed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.
- חוֹמָ֣הchomahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wall
Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value.
- חוֹמַ֣תchomatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wall of
Nehemiah
thirty-two uses
And they told me, “The remnant who survived the exile are there in the province, in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”
- וְחוֹמַ֤תvechomatconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and wall of
And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the king’s forest, so that he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel to the temple, for the city wall, and for the house I will occupy.” And because the gracious hand of my God was upon me, the king granted my requests.
- וּלְחוֹמַ֣תulechomatconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and for wall of
So I went out at night through the Valley Gate toward the Well of the Serpent and the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down and the gates that had been destroyed by fire.
- בְּחוֹמֹ֤תbechomotpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: on walls of
so I went up the valley by night and inspected the wall. Then I headed back and reentered through the Valley Gate.
- בַּחוֹמָ֑הbachomahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: on the wall
Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned down. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”
- חוֹמַ֣תchomatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wall of
Next to them, Uzziel son of Harhaiah, one of the goldsmiths, made repairs, and next to him, Hananiah son of the perfumer made repairs. They fortified Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.
- הַחוֹמָ֥הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
The Valley Gate was repaired by Hanun and the residents of Zanoah. They rebuilt it, installed its doors, bolts, and bars, and repaired a thousand cubits of the wall as far as the Dung Gate.
- בַּחוֹמָ֔הbachomahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: in the wall
The Fountain Gate was repaired by Shallun son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah. He rebuilt it, roofed it, and installed its doors, bolts, and bars. He also repaired the wall of the Pool of Shelah near the king’s garden, as far as the stairs that descend from the City of David.
- חוֹמַ֞תchomatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wall of
And next to them, the Tekoites repaired another section, from a point opposite the great tower that juts out to the wall of Ophel.
- חוֹמַ֥תchomatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wall of
Now when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he was furious and filled with indignation. He ridiculed the Jews
- הַ֣חוֹמָ֔הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was beside him, said, “If even a fox were to climb up on what they are building, it would break down their wall of stones!”
- חוֹמַ֥תchomatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wall of
So we rebuilt the wall until all of it was joined together up to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.
- הַ֣חוֹמָ֔הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
- הַחוֹמָ֖הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
When Sanballat and Tobiah, together with the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites, heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being closed, they were furious,
- לְחֹמ֣וֹתlechomotpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: of walls of
Meanwhile, the people of Judah said: “The strength of the laborer fails, and there is so much rubble that we will never be able to rebuild the wall.”
- בַּחוֹמָֽה׃bachomahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: on the wall
So I stationed men behind the lowest sections of the wall, at the vulnerable areas. I stationed them by families with their swords, spears, and bows.
- לַחוֹמָ֖הlachomahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: of the wall
When our enemies heard that we were aware of their scheme and that God had frustrated it, each of us returned to his own work on the wall.
- הַ֣חוֹמָ֔הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
who were rebuilding the wall. The laborers who carried materials worked with one hand and held a weapon with the other.
- בַּחוֹמָ֛הbachomahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: on the wall
Then I said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people: “The work is great and extensive, and we are spread out far from one another along the wall.
- הַ֣חוֹמָ֔הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
Instead, I devoted myself to the construction of the wall, and all my servants were gathered there for the work; we did not acquire any land.
- הַחוֹמָ֤הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left—though to that time I had not yet installed the doors in the gates—
- הַ֣חוֹמָ֔הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
that read: “It is reported among the nations—and Geshem agrees—that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and this is why you are building the wall. According to these reports, you are to become their king,
- הַחוֹמָ֑הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
So the wall was completed in fifty-two days, on the twenty-fifth of Elul.
- הַֽחוֹמָ֔הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
When the wall had been rebuilt and I had set the doors in place, the gatekeepers, singers, and Levites were appointed.
- הַחוֹמָ֔הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from all their homes and brought to Jerusalem to celebrate the joyous dedication with thanksgiving and singing, accompanied by cymbals, harps, and lyres.
- חוֹמַ֣תchomatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wall of
After the priests and Levites had purified themselves, they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.
- הַחוֹמָֽה׃hachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
Then I brought the leaders of Judah up on the wall, and I appointed two great thanksgiving choirs. One was to proceed along the top of the wall to the right, toward the Dung Gate.
- לַחוֹמָ֑הlachomahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: to the wall
- לַחוֹמָ֔הlachomahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: to the wall
At the Fountain Gate they climbed the steps of the City of David on the ascent to the wall and passed above the house of David to the Water Gate on the east.
- לַחוֹמָ֑הlachomahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: to the wall
The second thanksgiving choir proceeded to the left, and I followed it with half the people along the top of the wall, past the Tower of the Ovens to the Broad Wall,
- לְהַחוֹמָ֗הlehachomahpreposition + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: to the wall
- הַחוֹמָ֥הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
but I warned them, “Why are you camping in front of the wall? If you do it again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on, they did not return on the Sabbath.
- הַחוֹמָ֔הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wall
Psalms
two uses
In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.
- חוֹמ֥וֹתchomotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: walls of
Day and night they encircle the walls, while malice and trouble lie within.
- חוֹמֹתֶ֑יהָchomoteihanoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: walls its
Proverbs
two uses
A rich man’s wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.
- וּכְחוֹמָ֥הukhechomahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: and like a wall
Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who does not control his temper.
- חוֹמָ֑הchomahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a wall
Song of Solomon
three uses
I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city. They beat me and bruised me; they took away my cloak, those guardians of the walls.
- הַחֹמֽוֹת׃hachomotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the walls
If she is a wall, we will build a tower of silver upon her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.
- חוֹמָ֣הchomahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a wall
I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. So I have become in his eyes like one who brings peace.
- חוֹמָ֔הchomahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a wall
Isaiah
thirteen uses
against every high tower, against every fortified wall,
- חוֹמָ֥הchomahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wall
You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore them down to strengthen the wall.
- הַחוֹמָֽה׃hachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the city wall
You built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago.
- הַחֹ֣מֹתַ֔יִםhachomotayimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine dualtagged: the two walls
The high-walled fortress will be brought down, cast to the ground, into the dust.
- חוֹמֹתֶ֗יךָchomoteikhanoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: walls your
In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation is established as its walls and ramparts.
- חוֹמ֥וֹתchomotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: walls
this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly—in an instant!
- בְּחוֹמָ֣הbechomahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: in a wall
Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
- הַחוֹמָֽה׃hachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the city wall
But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
- הַ֣חוֹמָ֔הhachomahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the city wall
Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me.
- חוֹמֹתַ֥יִךְchomotayikhnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: walls your
I will give them, in My house and within My walls, a memorial and a name better than that of sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.
- וּבְחֽוֹמֹתַי֙uvechomotaiconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and in walls my
Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Although I struck you in anger, yet in favor I will show you mercy.
- חֹמֹתַ֔יִךְchomotayikhnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: walls your
No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.
- חוֹמֹתַ֔יִךְchomotayikhnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: walls your
On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves,
- חוֹמֹתַ֣יִךְchomotayikhnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: walls your
Jeremiah
thirteen uses
For I am about to summon all the clans and kingdoms of the north,” declares the LORD. “Their kings will come and set up their thrones at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem. They will attack all her surrounding walls and all the other cities of Judah.
- חוֹמֹתֶ֙יהָ֙chomoteihanoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: walls its
Now behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.
- וּלְחֹמ֥וֹתulechomotconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and into walls of
Then I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save and deliver you, declares the LORD.
- לְחוֹמַ֤תlechomatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: into a wall of
this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.
- לַֽחוֹמָ֑הlachomahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: of the wall
When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled. They left the city at night by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls, and they went out along the route to the Arabah.
- הַחֹמֹתָ֑יִםhachomotayimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine dualtagged: the two walls
The Chaldeans set fire to the palace of the king and to the houses of the people, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
- חֹמ֥וֹתchomotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: walls of
“I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will consume the fortresses of Ben-hadad.”
- בְּחוֹמַ֣תbechomatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: at wall of
Raise a war cry against her on every side! She has thrown up her hands in surrender; her towers have fallen; her walls are torn down. Since this is the vengeance of the LORD, take out your vengeance upon her; as she has done, do the same to her.
- חֽוֹמוֹתֶ֑יהָchomoteihanoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: walls its
Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon; post the guard; station the watchmen; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both devised and accomplished what He spoke against the people of Babylon.
- חוֹמֹ֨תchomotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: walls of
I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
- חוֹמַ֥תchomatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wall of
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”
- חֹ֠מוֹתchomotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: walls of
Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,
- הַחֹמֹתַ֙יִם֙hachomotayimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine dualtagged: the two walls
And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.
- חֹמ֥וֹתchomotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: walls of
Lamentations
four uses
The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.
- חוֹמֹ֖תchomotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: walls of
The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.
- חוֹמַ֣תchomatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wall of
- וְחוֹמָ֖הvechomahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and wall
The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest.
- חוֹמַ֣תchomatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: O wall of
Ezekiel
ten uses
They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and make her a bare rock.
- חֹמ֣וֹתchomotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: walls of
He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his axes.
- בְּחֹֽמוֹתָ֑יִךְbechomotayikhpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: on walls your
His multitude of horses will cover you in their dust. When he enters your gates as an army entering a breached city, your walls will shake from the noise of cavalry, wagons, and chariots.
- חֽוֹמוֹתַ֔יִךְchomotayikhnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: walls your
They will plunder your wealth and pillage your merchandise. They will demolish your walls, tear down your beautiful homes, and throw your stones and timber and soil into the water.
- חוֹמוֹתַ֔יִךְchomotayikhnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: walls your
Men of Arvad and Helech manned your walls all around, and the men of Gammad were in your towers. They hung their shields around your walls; they perfected your beauty.
- חוֹמוֹתַ֙יִךְ֙chomotayikhnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: walls your
- חוֹמוֹתַ֙יִךְ֙chomotayikhnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: walls your
You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will come against a tranquil people who dwell securely, all of them living without walls or bars or gates—
- חוֹמָ֔הchomahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a wall
The fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, every creature that crawls upon the ground, and all mankind on the face of the earth will tremble at My presence. The mountains will be thrown down, the cliffs will collapse, and every wall will fall to the ground.
- חוֹמָ֖הchomahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wall
And I saw a wall surrounding the temple area. Now the length of the measuring rod in the man’s hand was six long cubits (each measuring a cubit and a handbreadth), and he measured the wall to be one rod thick and one rod high.
- חוֹמָ֛הchomahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a wall
So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.
- ח֤וֹמָהchomahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a wall
Joel
two uses
They charge like mighty men; they scale the walls like men of war. Each one marches in formation, not swerving from the course.
- חוֹמָ֑הchomahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a wall
They storm the city; they run along the wall; they climb into houses, entering through windows like thieves.
- בַּֽחוֹמָה֙bachomahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: on the wall
Amos
four uses
So I will send fire upon the walls of Gaza, to consume its citadels.
- בְּחוֹמַ֣תbechomatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: on wall of
So I will send fire upon the walls of Tyre to consume its citadels.”
- בְּח֣וֹמַתbechomatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: on wall of
So I will kindle a fire in the walls of Rabbah to consume its citadels amid war cries on the day of battle and a violent wind on the day of tempest.
- בְּחוֹמַ֣תbechomatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: on wall of
This is what He showed me: Behold, the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand.
- חוֹמַ֣תchomatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a wall of
Nahum
two uses
He summons his nobles; they stumble as they advance. They race to its wall; the protective shield is set in place.
- חֽוֹמָתָ֔הּchomatahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: wall its
Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?
- חוֹמָתָֽהּ׃chomatahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: wall its
Zechariah
one use
For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.’”
- ח֥וֹמַתchomatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a wall of
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