1. חָנָה
decline, bend down, encamp
The corpus record — Hebrew
וַיִּ֥חַן
chanah · vb
decline, bend down, encamp
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 143 · 4.66/10k
Senses
2. חָנָה
properly, to incline; by implication, to decline (of the slanting rays of evening); specifically, to pitch atent; gen. to encamp (for abode or siege)
Attestations
- וַ/יִּ֥חַן Genesis 26:17 (BHS)
- וַ/יִּ֖חַן Genesis 33:18 (BHS)
- וַ/יַּחֲנ֣וּ Exodus 13:20 (BHS)
- וְ/יַחֲנוּ֙ Exodus 14:2 (BHS)
- תַחֲנ֖וּ Exodus 14:2 (BHS)
- חֹנִ֣ים Exodus 14:9 (BHS)
6 of 143 attestations shown.
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.