Strong's Lexicon: H2583 חָנָה

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H2583
Word:	חָנָה
Part of Speech:	verb
Etymology:	a primitive root
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	143
Transliteration:	chanah
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	khaw-naw'
Meaning:	1. (properly) to incline 2. (by implication) to decline (of the slanting rays of evening) 3. (specifically) to pitch a tent 4. (generally) to encamp (for abode or siege)
KJV Renderings:	abide (in tents), camp, dwell, encamp, grow to an end, lie, pitch (tent), rest in tent.

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חָנָה₁₄₃ verb decline, bend down, encamp (Aramaic [untranscribed source text 1841] to aim at, incline towards, reach; Zinjirli מחנת construct camp , Inscription Panammu^{13. 16. 17}; Arabic [untranscribed source text 1842] bend, curve, bend down; Assyrian mûnu, mênu and tênû, couch, mânîtu, house, Zim^{BP
44, 45} Dl in Zim¹¹⁷) —

Qal Perfect חָנָה 1Sam 26:5; Isa 29:1 וְחָנִ֫יתִי consecutive Isa 29:3; Zech 9:8 חָנוּ Num 2:34 + 2 t.; וְחָנוּ consecutive Num 1:52 Imperfect וַיִּחַן Gen 26:17 + 9 t.; 3 feminine singular תַּחֲנֶה Ps 27:3 יַחֲנוּ Num 1:50 + 13 t. Numbers + Exod 14:2 : וַיַּחֲנוּ Exod 13:26 + 79 t. (of which 42 in Num 33 ); וַיַּחֲנוּן Judg 11:18 2 masculine plural תַּחֲנוּ Exod 14:2 1 plural וַנַּחֲנֶה Ezra 8:15 Imperative חֲנֵה 2Sam 12:28 חֲנוּ Num 31:19; Jer 50:29 Infinitive חֲנוֺת Judg 19:9 חֲנֹת Num 1:51 suffix חֲנֹתֵנוּ Num 10:31 חֲנֹתְכֶם Deut 1:33 Participle חֹנֶה Exod 18:5; Ps 34:8 feminine חֹנָה 2Sam 23:13; 1Chr 11:15 חֹנָ֑ךְ Ps 53:6 plural חֹנִים Exod 14:9 + 11 t.; חוֺנִים Num 2:2; Nah 3:17 —

1. decline, of day drawing to its close חֲנוֺת הַיּוֺם Judg 19:9 (|| ׳ רָפָה הַיּ לַעֲרוֺב; also ׳ נְטוֺת הַיּ V:8; הַיּוֺם רַד מְאֹד Judg 19:11).

2. encamp (properly verge toward, incline to, settle at, of goal of day's march): —

a. of single nomad Gen 26:17 ( J ; followed by ב), Gen 33:18 ( E ; followed by אֶתפֿני).

b. of Israel at Exodus and in wilderness Exod 13:20 (ב) Exod 14:2 (לִפְנֵי), Exod 14:2 (עַל), + approximately 80 t. (Hexateuch chiefly P ); also (absolute) Num 9:18; Num 9:20; Num 9:22; Num 9:23 compare Ezra 8:15; Neh 11:30 so they encamped (i.e. settled, or were settled ) from Beersheba to the valley of Hinnom (|| ישׁבו Neh 11:25).

c. of armies: (1) Israel (conquering Canaan, etc.) Josh 4:19; Josh 5:10 + often; (2) Philistines 1Sam 4:1; 1Sam 13:16 ; 2Sam 23:23 +; usually followed by ב location Num 10:31; 1Sam 4:1; 1Sam 13:16; Josh 4:19; 1Sam 13:5 + 63t. ( וַיַּחֲנוּ בְ 2Sam 24:5 read וַיָּחֵלּוּ מִן ᵐ5 ^L We Dr see חלל ); so of locusts in hedges (in simile) Nah 3:17 also followed by עַל = by, near Exod 14:2; Exod 14:9; Exod 15:27 ; Num 1:52; Num 2:2; Num 2:5; Num 2:12; Num 2:27; Num 3:29; Num 3:35 ( על ירך), Num 33:10; Judg 7:1; 1Sam 4:1 עלפֿני השׂדה (על in different sense) 2Sam 11:11 followed by עַל also = against, encamp with hostile purpose Josh 10:5; Josh 10:31; Josh 10:34 ; Judg 6:4 ; Judg 20:19; 1Sam 11:1; 2Sam 12:28 ; 1Kgs 16:15 ; 2Kgs 25:1 ; 2Chr 32:1 ; Jer 50:29; Jer 52:4; Ps 27:3 followed by אֶלֿ in same sense Josh 11:5 metaphor of God's hostility to apostate Jerusalem ( על) Isa 29:3 followed by also לְ = at, by Num 2:34; Zech 9:8 אשׁרשָׁ֗֗֗ם Exod 18:5; 1Sam 26:5 followed by סביב לְ for protection Num 1:50; Num 1:53, compare metaphor Ps 34:8, but also hostility Job 19:12 also follwed by other prepositions and prepositional phrases, e.g. מֵעֵבֶר Num 21:13 מחוץ Num 31:19 בין 1Sam 17:1 נגד 1Kgs 20:27 etc.; followed by accusative of location 2Sam 17:26 followed by suffix accusative with hostile sense חֹנָ֑ךָ Ps 53:6 without preposition or noun following, in sense of encamp, be or abide in encampment Num 9:18; Num 9:20; Num 9:22; Num 9:23; Ezra 8:15 ; 2Sam 11:11 +; poetic of David in Jerusalem, Isa 29:1 city in which David fixed his camp.

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

חנה (g’hah-n)

Isaiah 9:1

KJV: Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.of the nations: or, populous

EHCC: סמו. city (where) David dwelt!

Isaiah 3:484

EHCC: I will camp against thee round about,

Isaiah 10:3

KJV: And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

EHCC: how we are Zo encamp .

Genesis 36:17

KJV: And these are the sons of Reuel Esau’s son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esau’s wife.

EHCC: and pitched his tent in the valley

Genesis 33:18

KJV: And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan–aram; and pitched his tent before the city.Shechem: Gr. Sychem

EHCC: and pitched his tent before the city.

Exodus 13:20

KJV: And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.

EHCC: end excamped in Etham,

Exodus 19:2

KJV: For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.

EHCC: and had pitched in the wilderness; and

Numbers 1:50

KJV: But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.

EHCC: aball minister unto it, and shall encamp

Numbers 4:2

KJV: Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,

EHCC: Isract shall pitch by his own standard,

Numbers 3:23

KJV: The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.

EHCC: the Geatbouttes shall pitch behind

Numbers 9:17

KJV: And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.

EHCC: pitched their tents.

Numbers 12:16

KJV: And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.

EHCC: and pitehed in the wilderness of

Numbers 91:10

EHCC: and pitched in Oboth.

Numbers 10:5

KJV: When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.

EHCC: and encamped before Gibeon,

Numbers 11:5

KJV: We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:

EHCC: eame aad pit together

Judges 6:7

KJV: And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord because of the Midianites,

EHCC: encamped a ‘inst them,

Judges 9:50

KJV: Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

EHCC: and encamped against Thebez,

Judges 10:17

KJV: Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh.gathered: Heb. cried

EHCC: and encamped in Gilead.

Judges 11:18

KJV: Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab.

EHCC: and pitched on the other side

Judges 15:9

KJV: Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

EHCC: asd pitched in Judah,

Judges 18:12

KJV: And they went up, and pitched in Kirjath–jearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahaneh–dan unto this day: behold, it is behind Kirjath–jearim.

EHCC: and pitched in Kinjath-jearim,

Judges 20:19

KJV: And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.

EHCC: and encamped against jibeab,

Judges 13:5

KJV: For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

EHCC: came up, Tad patched in Michmash,

Judges 26:3

EHCC: And Saul pitched in the hill

Judges 28:4

EHCC: came and pitched in Shunem:

2 Samuel 17:26

KJV: So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.

EHCC: So Israel and Absalom pitched

2 Samuel 24:5

KJV: And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer:river: or, valley

EHCC: and pitched in Aroer,

1 Kings 20:27

KJV: And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.were all…: or, were nourished

EHCC: ard the children of Israel pitched before

2 Kings 25:1

KJV: And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.

EHCC: and pitched against it;

1 Chronicles 19:7

KJV: So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.

EHCC: came und pitched before Medeba.

Nehemiah 11:30

KJV: Zanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, at Lachish, and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages thereof. And they dwelt from Beer–sheba unto the valley of Hinnom.

EHCC: 4 Ae elt from Beer-sheba-

Exodus 14:9

KJV: But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi–hahiroth, before Baal–zephon.

EHCC: overtook them encamping by the sea,

Exodus 18:5

KJV: And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:

EHCC: where he encamped at the mount

Numbers 2:3

KJV: And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.

EHCC: 4nd...shall they of the standard...pitch

Numbers 8:38

EHCC: But those that encamp before

Numbers 10:5

KJV: When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.

EHCC: the camps that lie on the east

Numbers 29:1

KJV: And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.

EHCC: the lites pitched by a fountain

2 Samuel 11:11

KJV: And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.

EHCC: are encamped in ae fields;

Psalms 34:7

KJV: The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

EHCC: (8).The angel of the say gets

Psalms 53:5

KJV: There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.were…: Heb. they feared a fear

EHCC: (6) pores of him that encampeth (against)

Nahum 3:17

KJV: Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

EHCC: which camp in the hedges 0