Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H2793
חֹרֶשׁ
choreshkho'-resh
Horesh
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chôresh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2793is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2793
a forest (perhaps as furnishing the material for fabric)
The King James renders it: bough, forest, shroud, wood.
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
choresh is rendered "Horesh". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Four 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 23:15While David was in Horesh in the Wilderness of Ziph, he saw that Saul had come out to take his life.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
While David was in Horesh in the Wilderness of Ziph, he saw that Saul had come out to take his life.
1 Samuel 23:15בַּחֹֽרְשָׁה׃ ס
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's seven uses are in 1 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- at the Horesh3
- and forest1
- and in the wooded areas1
- Horesh1
- the forest1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| חֹרֶף | choreph | autumn | Uses7 |
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- בַּחֹ֔רְשָׁה2
- בַּחֹֽרְשָׁה׃ ס1
- הַחֹ֙רֶשׁ֙1
- וּבֶחֳרָשִׁ֣ים1
- וְחֹ֥רֶשׁ1
- חֹ֑רְשָׁה1
The grammar of each form
- preposition with the article + proper noun (a name)3HRd/Npl
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural1HC/Rd/Ncmpa
- proper noun (a name)1HNpl
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
1 Samuel
four uses
While David was in Horesh in the Wilderness of Ziph, he saw that Saul had come out to take his life.
- בַּחֹֽרְשָׁה׃ סbachoreshahpreposition with the article + proper noun (a name)tagged: at the Horesh
And Saul’s son Jonathan came to David in Horesh and strengthened his hand in God,
- חֹ֑רְשָׁהchoreshahproper noun (a name)tagged: Horesh
So the two of them made a covenant before the LORD. And David remained in Horesh, while Jonathan went home.
- בַּחֹ֔רְשָׁהbachoreshahpreposition with the article + proper noun (a name)tagged: at the Horesh
Then the Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah south of Jeshimon?
- בַּחֹ֔רְשָׁהbachoreshahpreposition with the article + proper noun (a name)tagged: at the Horesh
2 Chronicles
one use
He also built cities in the hill country of Judah and fortresses and towers in the forests.
- וּבֶחֳרָשִׁ֣יםuvechorashimconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and in the wooded areas
Isaiah
one use
In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites and to utter desolation.
- הַחֹ֙רֶשׁ֙hachoreshthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the forest
Ezekiel
one use
Look at Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches that shaded the forest. It towered on high; its top was among the clouds.
- וְחֹ֥רֶשׁvechoreshconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and forest
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.