Chanah חָנָה

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Chanah
חָנָה
Transliterationchanah
Strong's numberH2583
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechverb
Glossto camp
Occurrences143 in 135 verses
Most frequent inNumbers (72)

Chanah (Hebrew חָנָה, Strong's H2583) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to camp”. It occurs 143 times in 135 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) to decline, incline, encamp, bend down, lay siege against
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to decline
1a2) to encamp

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

Translated as

KJVpitched (67), encamped (33), encamp (11), pitch (9), tents (4), camp (3), tent (2), rested (2), abode (2), lie (2), dwelt (2), encampeth (2), and 4 other renderings
BSBcamped (73), they camped (11), encamped (4), are to camp (4), encamp (3), was encamped (3), will camp (3), they encamped (3), were to camp (3), camp (2), lie (2), they laid siege (2), and 27 other renderings

Verses

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

Genesis

Exodus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Job

Psalms

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Nahum

Zechariah

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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