Hebrew noun (Aramaic, masculine) · H2429
חַיִל
chayilkhah'-yil
strength
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2429is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2429
an army, or strength
The King James renders it: aloud, army, [idiom] most (mighty), power.
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
chayil is rendered "strength". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Six of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 4:23When the text of the letter from King Artaxerxes was read to Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their associates, they went immediately to the Jews in Jerusalem and forcibly stopped them.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
When the text of the letter from King Artaxerxes was read to Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their associates, they went immediately to the Jews in Jerusalem and forcibly stopped them.
Ezra 4:23וְחָֽיִל׃ ס
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
- with power3
- and power1
- in army his1
- power1
- with army of1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| חַיִץ | chayits | wall | 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
- בְחַ֜יִל1
- בְחָ֑יִל1
- בְּחֵ֣יל1
- בְּחַ֔יִל1
- בְחַיְלֵ֔הּ1
- וְחָֽיִל׃ ס1
- חַ֙יִל֙1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular3AR/Ncbsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular1AC/Ncbsa
- noun · masculine or feminine singular1ANcbsa
- preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1AR/Ncbsc
- preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1AR/Ncbsc/Sp3ms
Ezra
one use
When the text of the letter from King Artaxerxes was read to Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their associates, they went immediately to the Jews in Jerusalem and forcibly stopped them.
- וְחָֽיִל׃ סvechayilconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: and power
Daniel
six uses
Then the herald loudly proclaimed, “O people of every nation and language, this is what you are commanded:
- בְחָ֑יִלvechayilpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: with power
and he commanded some mighty men of valor in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and throw them into the blazing fiery furnace.
- חַ֙יִל֙chayilnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: power
- בְחַיְלֵ֔הּvechaylehpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: in army his
He called out in a loud voice: ‘Cut down the tree and chop off its branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts flee from under it, and the birds from its branches.
- בְחַ֜יִלvechayilpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: with power
All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
- בְּחֵ֣ילbecheilpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: with army of
The king called out for the enchanters, astrologers, and diviners to be brought in, and he said to these wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this inscription and tells me its interpretation will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck, and he will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”
- בְּחַ֔יִלbechayilpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: with power
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.