Chavilah חֲוִילָה

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Chavilah
חֲוִילָה
Transliterationchavilah
Strong's numberH2341 (H2341H, H2341I, H2341J, H2341G)
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechname of a man
GlossHavilah
Occurrences7 in 7 verses
Most frequent inGenesis (4)

Chavilah (Hebrew חֲוִילָה, Strong's H2341) is a name of a man in the Old Testament, glossed “Havilah”. It occurs 7 times.

Definition

H2341H: Havilah

A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.10.7;
son of: Cush (H3568);
brother of: Seba (H5434), Sabtah (H5454), Raamah (H7484), Sabteca (H5455) and Nimrod (H5248)
§ Havilah = "circle"
1) a part of Eden through which flowed the river Pison (Araxes); was probably the Grecian Colchis, in the northeast corner of Asia Minor, near the Caspian Sea
2) a district in Arabia of the Ishmaelites named from the 2nd son of Cush; probably the district of Kualan, in the northwestern part of Yemen
3) a son of Cush
4) a son of Joktan

H2341I: Havilah

A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.10.29;
son of: Joktan (H3355);
brother of: Almodad (H0486), Sheleph (H8026), Hazarmaveth (H2700), Jerah (H3392), Hadoram (H1913A), Uzal (H0187), Diklah (H1853), Obal (H5745), Abimael (H0039), Sheba (H7614H), Ophir (H0211) and Jobab (H3103)
§ Havilah = "circle"
1) a part of Eden through which flowed the river Pison (Araxes); was probably the Grecian Colchis, in the northeast corner of Asia Minor, near the Caspian Sea
2) a district in Arabia of the Ishmaelites named from the 2nd son of Cush; probably the district of Kualan, in the northwestern part of Yemen
3) a son of Cush
4) a son of Joktan

H2341J: Havilah

§ Havilah = "circle"
a district in Arabia of the Ishmaelites named from the 2nd son of Cush; probably the district of Kualan, in the northwestern part of Yemen

H2341G: Havilah

§ Havilah = "circle"
a part of Eden through which flowed the river Pison (Araxes); was probably the Grecian Colchis, in the northeast corner of Asia Minor, near the Caspian Sea

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVhavilah (7)
BSBhavilah (7)

Verses

Every verse with Chavilah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

1 Samuel

1 Chronicles

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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