Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2715
חֹר
chorkhore
noble
13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chôr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2715is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2715
properly, white or pure (from the cleansing or shining power of fire; hence (figuratively) noble (in rank)
The King James renders it: noble.
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 "noble". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Nehemiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 21:8Then Jezebel wrote letters in Ahab’s name, sealed them with his seal, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived with Naboth in his city.
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
Then Jezebel wrote letters in Ahab’s name, sealed them with his seal, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived with Naboth in his city.
1 Kings 21:8הַֽחֹרִים֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seven of the word's thirteen uses are in Nehemiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the nobles5
- nobles of4
- and the nobles1
- and to the nobles1
- nobles1
- nobles its1
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.
All 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 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
- הַחֹרִ֤ים2
- חֹרֵ֣י2
- הַֽחֹרִים֙1
- הַחֹרִ֣ים1
- הַחֹרִ֧ים1
- וְהַחֹרִ֗ים1
- וְלַחֹרִ֣ים1
- חוֹרִ֑ים1
- חֹרֵ֤י1
- חֹרֵ֥י1
- חֹרֶ֥יהָ1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural5HTd/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)4HNcmpc
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural1HC/Rd/Ncmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Td/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcmpc/Sp3fs
1 Kings
two uses
Then Jezebel wrote letters in Ahab’s name, sealed them with his seal, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived with Naboth in his city.
- הַֽחֹרִים֙hachorimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the nobles
So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel had instructed in the letters she had written to them.
- וְהַחֹרִ֗יםvehachorimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the nobles
Nehemiah
seven uses
The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, for I had not yet told the Jews or priests or nobles or officials or any other workers.
- וְלַחֹרִ֣יםvelachorimconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and to the nobles
After I had made an inspection, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.”
- הַחֹרִ֤יםhachorimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the nobles
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.
- הַחֹרִ֤יםhachorimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the nobles
and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” So I called a large assembly against them
- הַחֹרִ֣יםhachorimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the nobles
Also in those days, the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came back to them.
- חֹרֵ֤יchoreinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: nobles of
Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. I found the genealogical register of those who had first returned, and I found the following written in it:
- הַחֹרִ֧יםhachorimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the nobles
Then I rebuked the nobles of Judah and asked, “What is this evil you are doing—profaning the Sabbath day?
- חֹרֵ֣יchoreinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: nobles of
Ecclesiastes
one use
Blessed are you, O land whose king is a son of nobles, and whose princes feast at the proper time—for strength and not for drunkenness.
- חוֹרִ֑יםchorimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: nobles
Isaiah
one use
No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing.
- חֹרֶ֥יהָchoreihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: nobles its
Jeremiah
two uses
which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he carried Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.
- חֹרֵ֥יchoreinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: nobles of
There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the nobles of Judah.
- חֹרֵ֣יchoreinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: nobles of
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.