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Lexicon :: Strong's H2583 - ḥānâ

Aa
חָנָה
Transliteration
ḥānâ
Pronunciation
khaw-naw'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root [compare חָנַן (H2603)]
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: TWOT- 690

Strong’s Definitions

חָנָה chânâh, khaw-naw'; a primitive root (compare H2603); properly, to incline; by implication, to decline (of the slanting rays of evening); specifically, to pitch a tent; generally to encamp (for abode or siege):—abide (in tents), camp, dwell, encamp, grow to an end, lie, pitch (tent), rest in tent.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 143x

The KJV translates Strong's H2583 in the following manner: pitch (78x), encamp (47x), camp (4x), pitch ... tent (4x), abide (3x), dwelt (2x), lie (2x), rested (2x), grows to an end (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 143x
The KJV translates Strong's H2583 in the following manner: pitch (78x), encamp (47x), camp (4x), pitch ... tent (4x), abide (3x), dwelt (2x), lie (2x), rested (2x), grows to an end (1x).

  1. to decline, incline, encamp, bend down, lay siege against

    1. (Qal)

      1. to decline

      2. to encamp

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָנָה chânâh, khaw-naw'; a primitive root (compare H2603); properly, to incline; by implication, to decline (of the slanting rays of evening); specifically, to pitch a tent; generally to encamp (for abode or siege):—abide (in tents), camp, dwell, encamp, grow to an end, lie, pitch (tent), rest in tent.
STRONGS H2583: Abbreviations
חָנָה 143 verb decline, bend down, encamp (Aramaic axno to aim at, incline towards, reach; Zinjirli מחנת construct camp, Inscription Panammu13. 16. 17; Arabic حَنَا bend, curve, bend down; Assyrian mûnu, mênu and tênû, couch, mânîtu, house, ZimBP 44, 45 Dl in Zim117) —
Qal Perfect חָנָה 1 Samuel 26:5; Isaiah 29:1; וְחָנִ֫יתִי consecutive Isaiah 29:3; Zechariah 9:8; חָנוּ Numbers 2:34 + 2 times; וְחָנוּ consecutive Numbers 1:52; Imperfect וַיִּחַן Genesis 26:17 + 9 times; 3rd person feminine singular תַּחֲנֶה Psalm 27:3; יַחֲנוּ Numbers 1:50 + 13 times Numbers + Exodus 14:2: וַיַּחֲנוּ Exodus 13:26 + 79 times (of which 42 in Numbers 33); וַיַּחֲנוּן Judges 11:18; 2nd person masculine plural תַּחֲנוּ Exodus 14:2; 1st person plural וַנַּחֲנֶה Ezra 8:15; Imperative חֲנֵה 2 Samuel 12:28; חֲנוּ Numbers 31:19; Jeremiah 50:29; Infinitive חֲנוֺת Judges 19:9; חֲנֹת Numbers 1:51; suffix חֲנֹתֵנוּ Numbers 10:31; חֲנֹתְכֶם Deuteronomy 1:33; Participle חֹנֶה Exodus 18:5; Psalm 34:8; feminine חֹנָה 2 Samuel 23:13; 1 Chronicles 11:15; חֹנָ֑ךְ Psalm 53:6; plural חֹנִים Exodus 14:9 + 11 times; חוֺנִים Numbers 2:2; Nahum 3:17; —
1. decline, of day drawing to its close חֲנוֺת הַיּוֺם Judges 19:9 (|| רָפָה הַיּ׳ לַעֲרוֺב; also נְטוֺת הַיּ׳ Judges 19:8; הַיּוֺם רַד מְאֹד Judges 19:11).
2. encamp (properly verge toward, incline to, settle at, of goal of day's march): —
a. of single nomad Genesis 26:17 (J; followed by ב), Genesis 33:18 (E; followed by אֶתפֿני).
b. of Israel at Exodus and in wilderness Exodus 13:20 (ב) Exodus 14:2 (לִפְנֵי), Exodus 14:2 (עַל), + approximately 80 times (Hexateuch chiefly P); also (absolute) Numbers 9:18, 20, 22, 23 compare Ezra 8:15; Nehemiah 11:30 so they encamped (i.e. settled, or were settled) from Beersheba to the valley of Hinnom (|| ישׁבו Nehemiah 11:25).
c. of armies:
(1) Israel (conquering Canaan, etc.) Joshua 4:19; Joshua 5:10 + often;
(2) Philistines 1 Samuel 4:1; 1 Samuel 13:16; 2 Samuel 23:23 +; usually followed by ב location Numbers 10:31; 1 Samuel 4:1; 1 Samuel 13:16; Joshua 4:19; 1 Samuel 13:5 + 63 times (וַיַּחֲנוּ בְ 2 Samuel 24:5 read וַיָּחֵלּוּ מִן LXX of Lucian (Lag.) We Dr see חלל); so of locusts in hedges (in simile) Nahum 3:17; also followed by עַל＝by, near Exodus 14:2, 9; Exodus 15:27; Numbers 1:52; Numbers 2:2, 5, 12, 27; Numbers 3:29, 35 (על ירך), Numbers 33:10; Judges 7:1; 1 Samuel 4:1; עלפֿני השׂדה (על in different sense) 2 Samuel 11:11; followed by עַל also＝against, encamp with hostile purpose Joshua 10:5, 31, 34; Judges 6:4; Judges 20:19; 1 Samuel 11:1; 2 Samuel 12:28; 1 Kings 16:15; 2 Kings 25:1; 2 Chronicles 32:1; Jeremiah 50:29; Jeremiah 52:4; Psalm 27:3; followed by אֶלֿ in same sense Joshua 11:5; metaphor of God's hostility to apostate Jerusalem (על) Isaiah 29:3; followed by also לְ＝at, by Numbers 2:34; Zechariah 9:8; שָׁם ֗֗֗ אשׁר Exodus 18:5; 1 Samuel 26:5; followed by סביב לְ for protection Numbers 1:50, 53, compare metaphor Psalm 34:8, but also hostility Job 19:12; also follwed by other prepositions and prepositional phrases, e.g. מֵעֵבֶר Numbers 21:13; מחוץ Numbers 31:19; בין 1 Samuel 17:1; נגד 1 Kings 20:27 etc.; followed by accusative of location 2 Samuel 17:26; followed by suffix accusative with hostile sense חֹנָ֑ךָ Psalm 53:6; without preposition or noun following, in sense of encamp, be or abide in encampment Numbers 9:18, 20, 22, 23; Ezra 8:15; 2 Samuel 11:11 +; poetic of David in Jerusalem, Isaiah 29:1 city in which David fixed his camp.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

26:17; 26:17; 33:18

Exodus

13:20; 14:2; 14:2; 14:2; 14:2; 14:2; 14:9; 14:9; 15:27; 18:5; 18:5

Numbers

1:50; 1:50; 1:51; 1:52; 1:52; 1:53; 2:2; 2:2; 2:5; 2:12; 2:27; 2:34; 2:34; 3:29; 3:35; 9:18; 9:18; 9:20; 9:20; 9:22; 9:22; 9:23; 9:23; 10:31; 10:31; 21:13; 31:19; 31:19; 33; 33:10

Deuteronomy

1:33

Joshua

4:19; 4:19; 5:10; 10:5; 10:31; 10:34; 11:5

Judges

6:4; 7:1; 11:18; 19:8; 19:9; 19:9; 19:11; 20:19

1 Samuel

4:1; 4:1; 4:1; 11:1; 13:5; 13:16; 13:16; 17:1; 26:5; 26:5

2 Samuel

11:11; 11:11; 12:28; 12:28; 17:26; 23:13; 23:23; 24:5

1 Kings

16:15; 20:27

2 Kings

25:1

1 Chronicles

11:15

2 Chronicles

32:1

Ezra

8:15; 8:15; 8:15

Nehemiah

11:25; 11:30

Job

19:12

Psalms

27:3; 27:3; 34:8; 34:8; 53:6; 53:6

Isaiah

29:1; 29:1; 29:3; 29:3

Jeremiah

50:29; 50:29; 52:4

Nahum

3:17; 3:17

Zechariah

9:8; 9:8

H2583

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Strong's Number H2583 matches the Hebrew חָנָה (ḥānâ),
which occurs 143 times in 135 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 26:17–Num 33:15)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:17 - So Isaac went away from there, and put up his tents in the valley of Gerar, making his living-place there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:18 - So Jacob came safely from Paddan-aram to the town of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and put up his tents near the town.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:20 - Then they went on their journey from Succoth, and put up their tents in Etham at the edge of the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:2 - Give orders to the children of Israel to go back and put up their tents before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon, opposite to which you are to put up your tents by the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:9 - But the Egyptians went after them, all the horses and carriages of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them in their tents by the sea, by Pihahiroth, before Baal-zephon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:27 - And they came to Elim where there were twelve water-springs and seventy palm-trees: and they put up their tents there by the waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:1 - And the children of Israel went on from the waste land of Sin, by stages as the Lord gave them orders, and put up their tents in Rephidim: and there was no drinking-water for the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:5 - And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to where Moses had put up his tent in the waste land, by the mountain of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:2 - And when they had gone away from Rephidim and had come into the waste land of Sinai, they put up their tents in the waste land before the mountain: there Israel put up its tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:50 - But to them you are to give the care of the Tent of meeting with its vessels and everything in it: they are to take up the Tent, and be responsible for everything to do with it, and put up their tents round it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:51

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:51 - And when the Tent of meeting goes forward, the Levites are to take it down; and when it is to be put up, they are to do it: any strange person who comes near it is to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:52

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:52 - The children of Israel are to put up their tents, every man in his tent-circle round his flag.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:53

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:53 - But the tents of the Levites are to be round the Tent of meeting, so that wrath may not come on the children of Israel: the Tent of meeting is to be in the care of the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:2 - The children of Israel are to put up their tents in the order of their families, by the flags of their fathers' houses, facing the Tent of meeting on every side.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:3 - Those whose tents are on the east side, looking to the dawn, will be round the flag of the children of Judah, with Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, as their chief.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:5 - And nearest to him will be the tribe of Issachar, with Nethanel, the son of Zuar, as their chief.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:12 - And nearest to him, the tribe of Simeon, with Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai, as their chief.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:17 - Then the Tent of meeting is to go forward, with the tents of the Levites, in the middle of the armies; in the same order as their tents are placed, they are to go forward, every man under his flag.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:27 - Nearest to him will be the tribe of Asher, with Pagiel, the son of Ochran, as their chief.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:34 - So the children of Israel did as the Lord said to Moses, so they put up their tents by their flags, and they went forward in the same order, by their families, and by their fathers' houses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:23 - The tents of the Gershonites are to be placed at the back of the House, to the west.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:29 - The tents of the Kohathites are to be placed on the south side of the House.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:35 - The chief of the families of Merari was Zuriel, the son of Abihail: their tents are to be placed on the north side of the House.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:38 - And those whose tents are to be placed on the east side of the House in front of the Tent of meeting, looking to the dawn, are Moses and Aaron and his sons, who will do the work of the holy place for the children of Israel; and any strange person who comes near will be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:17 - And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the House, then the children of Israel went journeying on; and in the place where the cloud came to rest, there the children of Israel put up their tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:18 - At the order of the Lord the children of Israel went forward, and at the order of the Lord they put up their tents: as long as the cloud was resting on the House, they did not go away from that place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:20 - Sometimes the cloud was resting on the House for two or three days; then, by the order of the Lord, they kept their tents in that place, and when the Lord gave the order they went on.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:22 - Or if the cloud came to rest on the House for two days or a month or a year without moving, the children of Israel went on waiting there and did not go on; but whenever it was taken up they went forward on their journey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:23 - At the word of the Lord they put up their tents, and at the word of the Lord they went forward on their journey: they kept the orders of the Lord as he gave them by Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:5 - When a loud note is sounded, the tents placed on the east side are to go forward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:6 - At the sound of a second loud note, the tents on the south side are to go forward: the loud note will be the sign to go forward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:31 - And he said, Do not go from us; for you will be eyes for us, guiding us to the right places in the waste land to put up our tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:16 - After that, the people went on from Hazeroth and put up their tents in the waste land of Paran.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:10 - Then the children of Israel went on and put up their tents in Oboth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:11 - And journeying on again from Oboth, they put up their tents in Iye-abarim, in the waste land before Moab looking east.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:12 - And moving on from there, they put up their tents in the valley of Zered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:13 - From there they went on and put up their tents on the other side of the Arnon, which is on the waste land at the edge of the land of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the line of division between Moab and the Amorites:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:1 - Then the children of Israel, journeying on, put up their tents in the lowlands of Moab, on the other side of Jordan at Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:19 - You yourselves will have to keep outside the tent-circle for seven days, anyone of you who has put any person to death or come near a dead body; and on the third day and on the seventh day make yourselves and your prisoners clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:5 - So the children of Israel went from Rameses and put up their tents in Succoth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:6 - And they went on from Succoth and put up their tents in Etham on the edge of the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:7 - And from Etham, turning back to Pi-hahiroth which is before Baal-zephon, they put up their tents before Migdol.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:8 - And journeying on from before Hahiroth, they went through the sea into the waste land: they went three days' journey through the waste land of Etham and put up their tents in Marah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:9 - And from Marah they went on to Elim: and in Elim there were twelve water-springs and seventy palm-trees; and they put up their tents there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:10 - And they went on from Elim and put up their tents by the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:11 - Then from the Red Sea they went on and put up their tents in the waste land of Sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:12 - And they went on from the waste land of Sin, and put up their tents in Dophkah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:13 - And they went on from Dophkah, and put up their tents in Alush.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:14 - And they went on from Alush, and put up their tents in Rephidim, where there was no drinking-water for the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:15 - And they went on from Rephidim, and put up their tents in the waste land of Sinai.

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