Village
חַוָּהStrong’s H2333chavvah (chav-vah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chavvah is the Hebrew word usually translated “villages of” and “villages their”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havothjair.”
Meaning
- Village, town, tent village
How it's translated
- villages of 2
- villages their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 1
- Joshua 1
- 1 Kings 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 13:30And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities:
- 1 Kings 4:13The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars:
Hebrew dictionary
חַוָּה chavvah · village
village, town, tent village
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “village” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
VIL'LAGE, noun
A small assemblage of houses, less than a town or city, and inhabited chiefly by farmers and other laboring people. In England, it is said that a village is distinguished from a town by the want of a market.
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.