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Lexicon :: Strong's H2346 - ḥômâ

Aa
חוֹמָה
Transliteration
ḥômâ
Pronunciation
kho-maw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Act. participle of an unused root apparently meaning to join
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 674c

Strong’s Definitions

חוֹמָה chôwmâh, kho-maw'; feminine active participle of an unused root apparently meaning to join; a wall of protection:—wall, walled.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 133x

The KJV translates Strong's H2346 in the following manner: wall (131x), walled (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 133x
The KJV translates Strong's H2346 in the following manner: wall (131x), walled (2x).

  1. wall

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חוֹמָה chôwmâh, kho-maw'; feminine active participle of an unused root apparently meaning to join; a wall of protection:—wall, walled.
STRONGS H2346: Abbreviations
חוֺמָה 133 noun feminine wall (as protection; construct חמת MI21; 21) — absolute ח׳ Leviticus 25:29 + 59 times (including לְהַחוֺמָה Nehemiah 12:38); חֹמָה Exodus 14:29 + 8 times; construct חוֺמַת Joshua 6:5 + 28 times; suffix חוֺמָתָהּ Nahum 2:6; Nahum 3:8; plural, absolute חוֺמוֺת 2 Chronicles 8:5; Isaiah 26:1; חֹמוֺת Songs 5:7; construct חוֺמוֺת Psalm 51:20; חוֺמֹת 2 Kings 25:10 + 9 times; suffix חוֺמֹתַי Isaiah 56:5; חֹמֹתֶיךָ Deuteronomy 28:52; Isaiah 25:12; חוֺמוֺתַיִךְ Ezekiel 26:10, 12; Ezekiel 27:11 (twice in verse); חוֺמֹתַיִךְ Isaiah 49:16 + 2 times; חֹמֹתַיִךְ Isaiah 60:10; חֹמוֺתָ֑יִךְ Ezekiel 26:9; חוֺמוֺתֶיהָ Jeremiah 50:15; חוֺמֹתֶיהָ Psalm 55:11; Jeremiah 1:15; dual חוֺמֹתַיִם Isaiah 22:11; חֹמֹתַיִם 2 Kings 25:4 = Jeremiah 52:7; חֹמֹתָ֑יִם Jeremiah 39:4 (on form see Ol§ 113 a); —
1. usually term for wall of city Deuteronomy 28:52; Joshua 2:15; Joshua 6:5, 20 (all J E), 1 Samuel 31:10, 12; 2 Samuel 11:20, 21 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 18:26, 27 = Isaiah 36:11; Isaiah 36:12; Amos 1:7; Amos 1:10; Amos 1:14; Isaiah 2:15; Isaiah 20:10; Isaiah 20:11; Isaiah 25:12; Nahum 2:6; Nahum 3:8; Ezekiel 26:9 +, Jeremiah 1:15 +, Joel 2:7, 9; בֵּין הַחֹמֹתַיִם (of Jerusalem) i.e. between the two walls of the Ophel and the southwest hill respectively, of a reservoir Isaiah 22:11, a gate 2 Kings 25:4 = Jeremiah 34:4 = Jeremiah 52:7; symbol of Israel, Amos 7:7; 2 Chronicles 8:5; 2 Chronicles 14:6; 2 Chronicles 25:23; 26:6 (3 times in verse); Psalm 51:20 [Psalm 51:18]; Nehemiah 1:3 + 31 times in Nehemiah; חוֺמַת אֲנָךְ Amos 7:7 (literally wall of a plummet) is of doubtful meaning: a wall built plumb, or by means of a plumb-line ? We thinks unintelligible; עִיר חוֺמָה = walled city, Leviticus 25:29, עִיר אשׁר לֹא ח׳ Leviticus 25:30 (לֹא = לוֺ), opposed to הַחֲצֵרִים אשׁר אין להם ח׳ Leviticus 25:31 (all H); more elaborately גְבֹהָה דְּלָתַיִם וּבְרִ֑יחַ עָרִים בְּצֻרֹת ח׳ Deuteronomy 3:5, compare 2 Chronicles 8:5; גְּדֹלוֺת חוֺמָה וּבְרִיחַ נְחשֶׁת ע׳ 1 Kings 4:13; בְצוּרָה ח׳ Isaiah 2:15; ח singular׳ of wall of Jerusalem 1 Kings 3:1 + often; contempt. חוֺמַת אַבְנֵיהֶם Nehemiah 3:35; less often plural Nehemiah 2:13 +; of specific portions of wall הָעֹפֶל ח׳ 2 Chronicles 27:3; Nehemiah 3:27; בְּרֵבַת הַשֶּׁלַח ח׳ Nehemiah 3:15; הַח׳ הָֽרְחָבָה Nehemiah 3:8; Nehemiah 12:38; also (generally) of Babylon Jeremiah 51:58. — Men build, בנה, the ח׳ 1 Kings 9:15 +, especially (of rebuilding), Nehemiah 2:17 +; fortify it בִּצֵּר Isaiah 22:10; it is joined together קשׁר Nehemiah 3:38; is repaired עָֽלְתָה אֲרוּכָה לְח׳ Nehemiah 4:1; it falls נפל Joshua 6:5, 20; 1 Kings 20:30; Ezekiel 38:20; the enemy makes it fall הִפִּיל 2 Samuel 20:15 (preceded by מַשְׁחִית si vera lectio, see Dr); destroys it הִשְׁחִית Lamentations 2:8; שִׁהֵת Ezekiel 26:4; makes a breach in it בּ׳ פָּרַץ2 Kings 14:13 2 Chronicles 25:23, compare פרץ with accusative 2 Chronicles 26:6; Nehemiah 3:35 [Nehemiah 4:3], and וֶיִּבֶן אֶתכֿלהֿח׳ הַפְּרוּצָה 2 Chronicles 32:5; also (in simile) עִיר מְּרוּצָה ואין ח׳ Proverbs 25:28; and Punic participle מְפֹרָ֑צֶת Nehemiah 1:3; one breakes it down נָתַץ 2 Kings 25:10; 2 Chronicles 36:19; Jeremiah 39:8; Jeremiah 52:14; tears it down הָרַס Ezekiel 26:12, compare passive Jeremiah 50:15; Amos predicts that י׳ will send fire into wall (of Gaza, etc.): וְשִׁלַּחְתִּי אֵשׁ בְּח׳ Amos 1:7, 10; or kindle fire in וְהִצַּתִּי אֵשׁ בְּח׳ Amos 1:14, so Jeremiah 49:27.
2. wall of a building:
a. citadel, fortress; ארמנותיה ח׳ Lamentations 2:7.
b. surrounding new temple Ezekiel 40:5; Ezekiel 42:20.
3. figurative of waters of Red Sea Exodus 14:22, 29 (P), compare Nahum 3:8; of David's men as protectors of Nabal's shepherds 1 Samuel 25:16; of prophet as object of assault חוֺמַת נְחשֶׁת Jeremiah 1:18; נחשׁת בְּצוּרָה ח׳ Jeremiah 15:20; of strong, virtuous woman Songs 8:9, 10; of salvation, יְשׁוּעָה, as defence Isaiah 26:1 (|| חֵל); of י׳ himself ח׳ אֵשׁ Zechariah 2:9; a dangerous political scheme is called breach in נִשְׁגָּבָה ח׳ Isaiah 30:13; נִשְׂגָּבָה ח׳ in simile of wealth Proverbs 18:11 (|| קִרְיַת עֻזּוֺ); a reckless man is ח׳ אֵין פְּרוּצָה עִיר Proverbs 25:28.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

14:22; 14:29; 14:29

Leviticus

25:29; 25:29; 25:30; 25:31

Deuteronomy

3:5; 28:52; 28:52

Joshua

2:15; 6:5; 6:5; 6:5; 6:20; 6:20

1 Samuel

25:16; 31:10; 31:12

2 Samuel

11:20; 11:21; 20:15

1 Kings

3:1; 4:13; 9:15; 20:30

2 Kings

14:13; 18:26; 18:27; 25:4; 25:4; 25:10; 25:10

2 Chronicles

8:5; 8:5; 8:5; 14:6; 25:23; 25:23; 26:6; 26:6; 27:3; 32:5; 36:19

Nehemiah

1:3; 1:3; 2:13; 2:17; 3:8; 3:15; 3:27; 4:1; 4:3; 12:38; 12:38

Psalms

51:18; 55:11

Proverbs

18:11; 25:28; 25:28

Song of Songs

5:7; 8:9; 8:10

Isaiah

2:15; 2:15; 22:10; 22:11; 22:11; 25:12; 25:12; 26:1; 26:1; 30:13; 36:11; 36:12; 49:16; 56:5; 60:10

Jeremiah

1:15; 1:15; 1:18; 15:20; 34:4; 39:4; 39:8; 49:27; 50:15; 50:15; 51:58; 52:7; 52:7; 52:14

Lamentations

2:7; 2:8

Ezekiel

26:4; 26:9; 26:9; 26:10; 26:12; 26:12; 27:11; 38:20; 40:5; 42:20

Joel

2:7; 2:9

Amos

1:7; 1:7; 1:10; 1:10; 1:14; 1:14; 7:7; 7:7

Nahum

2:6; 2:6; 3:8; 3:8; 3:8

Zechariah

2:9

H2346

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Strong's Number H2346 matches the Hebrew חוֹמָה (ḥômâ),
which occurs 133 times in 123 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Exo 14:22–Neh 4:1)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:22 - And the children of Israel went through the sea on dry land: and the waters were a wall on their right side and on their left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:29 - But the children of Israel went through the sea walking on dry land, and the waters were a wall on their right side and on their left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:29 - And if a man gives his house in a walled town for money, he has the right to get it back for the space of a full year after he has given it up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:30 - And if he does not get it back by the end of the year, then the house in the town will become the property of him who gave the money for it, and of his children for ever; it will not go from him in the year of Jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:31 - But houses in small unwalled towns will be the same as property in the country; they may be got back, and they will go back to their owners in the year of Jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:5 - All these towns had high walls round them with doors and locks; and in addition we took a great number of unwalled towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:52

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:52 - Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all your land which the Lord your God has given you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:15 - Then she let them down from the window by a cord, for the house where she was living was on the town wall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:5 - And at the sound of a long note on the horns, let all the people give a loud cry; and the wall of the town will come down flat, and all the people are to go straight forward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:20 - So the people gave a loud cry, and the horns were sounded; and on hearing the horns the people gave a loud cry, and the wall came down flat, so that the people went up into the town, every man going straight before him, and they took the town.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:16 - But day and night they were like a wall round us while we were with them, looking after the sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:10 - His war-dress they put in the house of Astarte; and his body was fixed on the wall of Beth-shan.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:12 - All the fighting men got up and, travelling all night, took Saul's body and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan; and they came to Jabesh and had them burned there.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:20 - If the king is angry and says, Why did you go so near the town for the fight? was it not certain that their archers would be on the wall?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:21 - Who put Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, to death? did not a woman send a great stone down on him from the wall, putting him to death at Thebez? why did you go so near the wall? Then say to him, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is among the dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:24 - And the archers sent their arrows at your servants from the wall, and some of the king's servants are dead, and among them is your servant Uriah the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:24 - Now David was seated between the two town doors; and the watchman went up to the roof of the doorways, on the wall, and, lifting up his eyes, saw a man running by himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:15 - And Joab and his men got him shut up in Abel of Beth-maacah, and put up an earthwork against the town: and all Joab's men did their best to get the wall broken down.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:21 - Not so: but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba, son of Bichri, by name, has taken up arms against the king, against David: give up this man only, and I will go away from the town. And the woman said to Joab, His head will be dropped over the wall to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:1 - Solomon became the son-in-law of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter as his wife, keeping her in the town of David, till the house he was building for himself, and the house of the Lord and the wall round Jerusalem, were complete.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:13 - ... the son of Geber in Ramoth-gilead; he had the towns of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and the country of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great towns with walls and locks of brass.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:15 - Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:30 - But the rest went in flight to Aphek, into the town, where a wall came down on the twenty-seven thousand who were still living. And Ben-hadad went in flight into the town, into an inner room.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:27 - Then he took his oldest son, who would have been king after him, offering him as a burned offering on the wall. So there was great wrath against Israel; and they went away from him, back to their country.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:26 - And when the king of Israel was going by on the wall, a woman came crying out to him, and said, Help! my lord king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:30 - Then the king, hearing what the woman said, took his robes in his hands, violently parting them; and, while he was walking on the wall, the people, looking, saw that under his robe he had haircloth on his flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:13 - And Jehoash, king of Israel, made Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, son of Ahaziah, prisoner at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and had the wall of Jerusalem pulled down from the doorway of Ephraim to the door in the angle, four hundred cubits.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:26 - Then Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the Rab-shakeh, Will you kindly make use of the Aramaean language in talking to your servants, for we are used to it, and do not make use of the Jews' language in the hearing of the people on the wall.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:27 - But the Rab-shakeh said to them, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:4 - So an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and the king went by the way of the Arabah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:10 - And the walls round Jerusalem were broken down by the Chaldaean army which was with the captain.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:5 - And of Beth-horon the higher and the lower, walled towns with walls and doorways and locks;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:7 - He said to Judah, Let us make these towns, building walls round them with towers and doors and locks. The land is still ours, because we have been true to the Lord our God; we have been true to him and he has given us rest on every side. So they went on building and all went well for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:23 - And Joash, king of Israel, made Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, prisoner at Beth-shemesh, and took him to Jerusalem; and he had the wall of Jerusalem pulled down from the doorway of Ephraim to the doorway in the angle, four hundred cubits.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:6 - He went out and made war against the Philistines, pulling down the walls of Gath and Jabneh and Ashdod, and building towns in the country round Ashdod and among the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:3 - He put up the higher doorway of the house of the Lord, and did much building on the wall of the Ophel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:5 - Then he took heart, building up the wall where it was broken down, and making its towers higher, and building another wall outside; and he made strong the Millo in the town of David, and got together a great store of all sorts of instruments of war.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:18 - These things they said, crying out with a loud voice in the Jews' language, to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, with the purpose of troubling them and putting fear into them, so that they might take the town;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:14 - After this he made an outer wall for the town of David, on the west side of Gihon in the valley, as far as the way into the town by the fish doorway; and he put a very high wall round the Ophel; and he put captains of the army in all the walled towns of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:19 - And the house of God was burned and the wall of Jerusalem broken down; all its great houses were burned with fire and all its beautiful vessels given up to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:3 - They said to me, The small band of Jews now living there in the land are in great trouble and shame: the wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its doorways burned with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:8 - And a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's park, so that he may give me wood to make boards for the doors of the tower of the house, and for the wall of the town, and for the house which is to be mine. And the king gave me this, for the hand of my God was on me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:13 - And I went out by night, through the doorway of the valley, and past the dragon's water-spring as far as the place where waste material was put, viewing the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down, and the doorways which had been burned with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:15 - Then in the night, I went up by the stream, viewing the wall; then turning back, I went in by the door in the valley, and so came back.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:17 - Then I said to them, You see what a bad condition we are in; how Jerusalem is a waste, and its doorways burned with fire: come, let us get to work, building up the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer be put to shame.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:8 - Near them was working Uzziel, the son of Harhaiah, the gold-worker. And by him was Hananiah, one of the perfume-makers, building up Jerusalem as far as the wide wall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:13 - Hanun and the people of Zanoah were working on the doorway of the valley; they put it up and put up its doors, with their locks and rods, and a thousand cubits of wall as far as the doorway where the waste material was placed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:15 - And Shallun, the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of the division of Mizpah, made good the doorway of the fountain, building it up and covering it and putting up its doors, with their locks and rods, with the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, as far as the steps which go down from the town of David.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:27 - After him the Tekoites were making good another part, opposite the great tower which comes out, and up to the wall of the Ophel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:1 - Now, Sanballat, hearing that we were building the wall, was very angry, and in his wrath made sport of the Jews.

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