Chori חֹרִי

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Chori
חֹרִי
Transliterationchori
Strong's numberH2752
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechplace name
GlossHorite
Occurrences6 in 6 verses
Most frequent inGenesis (4)

Chori (Hebrew חֹרִי, Strong's H2752) is a place name in the Old Testament, glossed “Horite”. It occurs 6 times.

Definition

Someone descended from Hori who was aomeone descended from Hori, a man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.36.22;
son of: Lotan (H3877);
brother of: Hemam (H1950)
Group of cho.ri (חֹרִי "Hori" H2753H)
§ Horite = "cave dweller"
1) the inhabitants of Mount Seir
2) the inhabitants of Edom (in later times)

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

Translated as

KJVhorites (3), horims (2), horite (1)
BSBhorites (5), horite (1)

Verses

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

Genesis

Deuteronomy

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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