חָנָה

cha.nah · to camp

Hebrew · Strong's H2583 · Verb · Sounds like: khaw-naw' · 143 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root (compare חָנַן); properly, to incline; by implication, to decline (of the slanting rays of evening); specifically, to pitch atent; gen. to encamp (for abode or siege); abide (in tents), camp, dwell, encamp, grow to an end, lie, pitch (tent), rest in tent.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
חָנָה 143 vb. decline, bend down, encamp
Qal
1. decline, of day drawing to its close
2. encamp (prop. verge toward, incline to, settle at, of goal of day’s march)

Every occurrence

  1. 2 Kings 25:1 וַיִּ֣חַן vai.Yi.chan · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    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 army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.

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