Chor חֹר
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| חֹר | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | chor |
| Strong's number | H2356 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | masculine noun |
| Gloss | hole |
| Occurrences | 7 in 7 verses |
| Most frequent in | 1 Samuel (1) |
Chor (Hebrew חֹר, Strong's H2356) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “hole”. It occurs 7 times in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
hole, cave
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | holes (3), hole (3), caves (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | holes (2), hole (2), latch (1), its dens (1), their sockets (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Chor, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
1 Samuel
- 1 Samuel 14:11And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.So the two of them showed themselves to the outpost of the Philistines, who exclaimed, “Look, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes in which they were hiding!”
2 Kings
- 2 Kings 12:9But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the Lord: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the Lord.Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the house of the LORD. There the priests who guarded the threshold put all the money brought into the house of the LORD.
Job
- Job 30:6To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
Song of Solomon
- Song of Solomon 5:4My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.My beloved put his hand to the latch; my heart pounded for him.
Ezekiel
- Ezekiel 8:7And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.Then He brought me to the entrance to the court, and I looked and saw a hole in the wall.
Nahum
- Nahum 2:12The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.The lion mauled enough for its cubs and strangled prey for the lioness. It filled its dens with the kill, and its lairs with mauled prey.
Zechariah
- Zechariah 14:12And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.And this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
Notes
- 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.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).