Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2426
חֵיל
chelkhale
rampart
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chêyl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2426is 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) · H2426
an army; also (by analogy,) an intrenchment
The King James renders it: army, bulwark, host, [phrase] poor, rampart, trench, wall.
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
chel is rendered "rampart". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- One of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 20:15And 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,
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
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,
2 Samuel 20:15בַּחֵ֑ל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- rampart2
- and a rampart1
- by the rampart1
- in rampart of1
- in rampart your1
- the fortress1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| חֵילָה | chelah | bulwark | Uses1 |
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
- בְּחֵילֵ֑ךְ1
- בְּחֵ֥ל1
- בַּחֵ֑ל1
- הַֽחֵל־1
- וָחֵֽל׃1
- חֵ֣יל1
- חֵ֥ל1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HR/Ncmsc/Sp2fs
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
2 Samuel
one use
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,
- בַּחֵ֑לbachelpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: by the rampart
1 Kings
one use
And the LORD also speaks concerning Jezebel: ‘The dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.’
- בְּחֵ֥לbechelpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in rampart of
Psalms
one use
May there be peace within your walls, and prosperity inside your fortresses.”
- בְּחֵילֵ֑ךְbecheilekhpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: in rampart your
Isaiah
one use
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.
- וָחֵֽל׃vachelconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a rampart
Lamentations
one use
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.
- חֵ֥לchelnoun · masculine singulartagged: rampart
Obadiah
one use
And the exiles of this host of the Israelites will possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath; and the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the Negev.
- הַֽחֵל־hachel-the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the fortress
Nahum
one use
Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?
- חֵ֣ילcheilnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rampart
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.