an army; also (by analogy,) an intrenchment
The corpus record — Hebrew
חֵ֥יל
cheyl
an army; also (by analogy,) an intrenchment
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 19 · 0.62/10k
Senses
Attestations
- חֵ֥יל 2 Samuel 8:9 (BHS)
- בַּ/חֵ֑ל 2 Samuel 20:15 (BHS)
- בְּ/חֵ֥ל 1 Kings 21:23 (BHS)
- בְּ/חֵ֥יל 2 Kings 18:17 (BHS)
- וָ/חֵֽל Isaiah 26:1 (BHS)
- בְּ/חֵ֣יל Isaiah 36:2 (BHS)
6 of 19 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.