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H2346Gחוֹמָהcho.mah
wallPart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Feminine)
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- H2346Hחוֹמָהcho.mah(Broad) Wall
H:N-FOccurrences: 3
130 occurrences in 121 verses
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So we went on building the wall; and all the wall was joined together half-way up: for the people were working hard.
הַ֣חוֹמָ֔ה (חוֹמָ֔ה) cho.Mah “wall”הַחוֹמָ֖ה (חוֹמָ֖ה) cho.Mah “wall”
But when it came to the ears of Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites, that the building of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the broken places were being made good, they were full of wrath;
לְחֹמ֣וֹת (חֹמ֣וֹת) cho.Mot “[the] walls of”
And Judah said, The strength of the workmen is giving way, and there is much waste material; it is impossible for us to put up the wall.
בַּחוֹמָֽה׃ (חוֹמָֽה) cho.Mah “wall”
So in the lowest part of the space at the back of the walls, in the open places, I put the people by families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
לַחוֹמָ֖ה (חוֹמָ֖ה) cho.Mah “wall”
And when it came to the ears of those who were against us, that we had knowledge of their designs and that God had made their purpose come to nothing, we all went back to the wall, everyone to his work
הַ֣חוֹמָ֔ה (חוֹמָ֔ה) cho.Mah “wall”
Those who were building the wall and those who were moving material did their part, everyone working with one hand, with his spear in the other;
בַּחוֹמָ֛ה (חוֹמָ֛ה) cho.Mah “wall”
And I said to the great ones and the chiefs and the rest of the people, The work is great and widely spaced and we are far away from one another on the wall:
הַ֣חוֹמָ֔ה (חוֹמָ֔ה) cho.Mah “wall”
And I kept on with the work of this wall, and we got no land for ourselves: and all my servants were helping with the work.
הַחוֹמָ֤ה (חוֹמָ֤ה) cho.Mah “wall”
Now when word was given to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arabian and to the rest of our haters, that I had done the building of the wall and that there were no more broken places in it (though even then I had not put up the doors in the doorways
הַ֣חוֹמָ֔ה (חוֹמָ֔ה) cho.Mah “wall”
And in it these words were recorded: It is said among the nations, and Geshem says so, that you and the Jews are hoping to make yourselves free from the king's authority; and that this is why you are building the wall: and they say that it is your purpos
הַחוֹמָ֑ה (חוֹמָ֑ה) cho.Mah “wall”
So the wall was complete on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.
הַֽחוֹמָ֔ה (חוֹמָ֔ה) cho.Mah “wall”
Now when the building of the wall was complete and I had put up the doors, and the door-keepers and the music-makers and the Levites had been given their places,
הַחוֹמָ֔ה (חוֹמָ֔ה) cho.Mah “wall”
And when the time came for the wall of Jerusalem to be made holy, they sent for the Levites out of all their places to come to Jerusalem, to keep the feast with joy, and with praise and melody, with brass and corded instruments of music.
חוֹמַ֣ת cho.Mat “[the] wall of”
And the priests and the Levites made themselves clean; and they made the people clean, and the doorways and the wall.
הַחוֹמָֽה׃ (חוֹמָֽה) cho.Mah “wall”
Then I made the rulers of Judah come up on the wall, and I put in position two great bands of them who gave praise, walking in ordered lines; one went to the right on the wall, in the direction of the doorway where the waste was put;
לַחוֹמָ֑ה (חוֹמָ֑ה) cho.Mah “wall”לַחוֹמָ֔ה (חוֹמָ֔ה) cho.Mah “wall”
And by the doorway of the fountain and straight in front of them, they went up by the steps of the town of David, at the slope up of the wall, over the house of David, as far as the water-doorway to the east.
לַחוֹמָ֑ה (חוֹמָ֑ה) cho.Mah “wall”
Then I gave witness against them and said, Why are you waiting all night by the wall? if you do so again I will have you taken prisoners. From that time they did not come again on the Sabbath.
הַחוֹמָ֔ה (חוֹמָ֔ה) cho.Mah “wall”
Do good to Zion in your good pleasure, building up the walls of Jerusalem.
חוֹמ֥וֹת cho.Mot “[the] walls of”
By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.
חוֹמֹתֶ֑יהָ (חוֹמֹתֶ֑י) cho.mo.Tei. “walls”
The property of a man of wealth is his strong town, and it is as a high wall in the thoughts of his heart.
וּכְחוֹמָ֥ה (חוֹמָ֥ה) cho.Mah “a wall”
He whose spirit is uncontrolled is like an unwalled town which has been broken into.
חוֹמָ֑ה cho.Mah “[is] a wall”
The keepers who go about the town overtook me; they gave me blows and wounds; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
הַחֹמֽוֹת׃ (חֹמֽוֹת) cho.Mot “walls”
If she is a wall, we will make on her a strong base of silver; and if she is a door, we will let her be shut up with cedar-wood.
חוֹמָ֣ה cho.Mah “[is] a wall”
I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers; then was I in his eyes as one to whom good chance had come.
חוֹמָ֔ה cho.Mah “[was] a wall”
And on every high tower, and on every strong wall;
חוֹמָ֥ה cho.Mah “wall”