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Strong H23462 sensesחוֹמָה

wall · (Broad) Wall

Transliteration
chômâh
Pronunciation
kho-maw'

The 2 senses of Strong H2346

The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H2346 appears in 123 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. wallH2346G118 verses · 21 books
  2. (Broad) WallH2346HSection of Jerusalem's wall2 verses · Nehemiah

General definition

Feminine active participle of an unused root apparently meaning to join; a wall of protection: - {wall} walled.

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • wall119
  • walled2
  • pass1
  • thereof1

First verses

  1. Exodus 14:22
    And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
  2. Exodus 14:29
    But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
  3. Leviticus 25:29
    And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
  4. Leviticus 25:30
    And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.
  5. Leviticus 25:31
    But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.
  6. Deuteronomy 3:5
    All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
  7. Deuteronomy 28:52
    And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.
  8. Joshua 2:15
    Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
  9. Joshua 6:5
    And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.
  10. Joshua 6:20
    So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
  11. 1 Samuel 25:16
    They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
  12. 1 Samuel 31:10
    And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth–shan.
  13. 1 Samuel 31:12
    All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth–shan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
  14. 2 Samuel 11:20
    And if so be that the king’s wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?
  15. 2 Samuel 11:21
    Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
  16. 2 Samuel 11:24
    And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king’s servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
  17. 2 Samuel 18:24
    And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.
  18. 2 Samuel 20:15
    And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth–maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
  19. 2 Samuel 20:21
    The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.
  20. 1 Kings 3:1
    And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.