Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2356
חוֹר
chorkhore
hole
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chôwr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2356is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2356
a cavity, socket, den
The King James renders it: cave, hole.
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
chor is rendered "hole". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- One of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 14:11So the two of them showed themselves to the outpost of the Philistines, who exclaimed, “Look, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes in which they were hiding!”
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
So the two of them showed themselves to the outpost of the Philistines, who exclaimed, “Look, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes in which they were hiding!”
1 Samuel 14:11הַחֹרִ֖ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in seven 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
- a hole2
- hole its1
- holes of1
- in sockets their1
- the hole1
- the holes1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חוֹר | chor | white cloth | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 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
- בְחֹֽרֵיהֶ֔ן1
- הַחֹ֔ר1
- הַחֹרִ֖ים1
- חֹ֖ר1
- חֹר־1
- חֹרֵ֖י1
- חֹרָ֔יו1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmpc
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmpc/Sp3ms
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine plural1HR/Ncmpc/Sp3fp
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HTd/Ncmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
1 Samuel
one use
So the two of them showed themselves to the outpost of the Philistines, who exclaimed, “Look, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes in which they were hiding!”
- הַחֹרִ֖יםhachorimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the holes
2 Kings
one use
Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the house of the LORD. There the priests who guarded the threshold put all the money brought into the house of the LORD.
- חֹ֖רchornoun · masculine singulartagged: a hole
Job
one use
so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
- חֹרֵ֖יchoreinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: holes of
Song of Solomon
one use
My beloved put his hand to the latch; my heart pounded for him.
- הַחֹ֔רhachorthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the hole
Ezekiel
one use
Then He brought me to the entrance to the court, and I looked and saw a hole in the wall.
- חֹר־chor-noun · masculine singulartagged: a hole
Nahum
one use
The lion mauled enough for its cubs and strangled prey for the lioness. It filled its dens with the kill, and its lairs with mauled prey.
- חֹרָ֔יוchoravnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: hole its
Zechariah
one use
And this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
- בְחֹֽרֵיהֶ֔ןvechoreihenpreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: in sockets their
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.