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. Genesis 26:17 וַיִּ֥חַן vai.Yi.chan · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

  2. Genesis 33:18 וַיִּ֖חַן vai.Yi.chan · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram; and encamped before the city.

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