Month
חֹ֫דֶשׁStrong’s H2320chodesh (cho-desh)
Appears in 224 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chodesh is the Hebrew word usually translated “month”, “months” and “month of”. It appears in 224 verses of the Old Testament.
“And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;”
Meaning
- The new moon, month, monthlythe first day of the month · the lunar month
How it's translated
- of the month 82
- in the month 55
- months 29
- a month 14
- the month 12
- month of 11
- for the month 10
- month 9
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 31
- Ezekiel 25
- 1 Chronicles 19
- 2 Chronicles 16
- Esther 13
- Jeremiah 13
26 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 1:1In contextIn the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
- Zechariah 1:7In contextUpon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
- Zechariah 7:1In contextAnd it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu;
- Zechariah 7:3In contextAnd to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?
- Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
- Genesis 8:4And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
All 224 verses, by book
- Numbers 31
- 1:11:183:153:223:283:343:393:403:439:19:39:59:119:2210:1010:1111:2011:2118:1620:126:6228:1128:1428:1628:1729:129:629:729:1233:333:38
- 1 Chronicles 19
- 3:412:1513:1421:1223:3127:127:227:327:427:527:727:827:927:1027:1127:1227:1327:1427:15
- Psalms 1
- 81:3
- Ezekiel 25
- 1:11:28:120:124:126:129:129:1730:2031:132:132:1733:2139:1239:1440:145:1745:1845:2045:2145:2546:146:346:647:12
- Daniel 1
- 10:4
Hebrew dictionary
חֹ֫דֶשׁ chodesh · month
: month 1) the new moon, month, monthly 1a) the first day of the month 1b) the lunar month
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “month” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MONTH, noun
[Latin mensis; Gr. a month from the moon.]
A space or period of time constituting a division of the year. month originally signified the time of one revolution of the moon, a lunation, or the period from one change or conjunction of the moon with the sun to another, a period of 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes and 5 seconds. This is the periodical month or as we generally call it, the lunar month In this sense we still use the word month But we also apply the term to the space of time in which the sun passes through one sign, or a twelfth part of the zodiac. This period contains 30 days, 10 hours, 29 minutes, 5 seconds, and it called a solar month In the year, there are twelve solar months, and thirteen lunar months.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.