Strong H2772חֹרֹנִי
Horonite
- Transliteration
- chôrônîy
- Pronunciation
- kho-ro-nee'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location in Gentilic sense
Definition
Patrial from H2773; a Choronite or inhabitant of Choronaim: - Horonite.
Meaning of the name
Horonite = "native of Horonaim"
Detailed definition
Someone descended from Horon(?), first mentioned at Neh.2.10
In the biblical story
Horonites
A people group opposed to Nehemiah's work.
The Horonites were a people group who opposed Nehemiah's efforts to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.
In the Bible
Strong H2772 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- horonite3
First verses
- Nehemiah 2:10When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
- Nehemiah 2:19But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
- Nehemiah 13:28And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.