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. Nahum 3:17 הַֽחוֹנִ֤ים ha.cho.Nim · An -ing word: simple action

    Thy princes are as the locusts, and thy marshals as the swarms of grasshoppers, which encamp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

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