Wall
חוֹמָהStrong’s H2346chomah (cho-mah)
Appears in 123 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chomah is the Hebrew word usually translated “wall”, “wall of” and “walls your”. It appears in 123 verses of the Old Testament.
“For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.”
Meaning
- Wall
How it's translated
- the wall 31
- a wall 14
- wall of 14
- walls your 10
- walls of 9
- the city wall 7
- wall 5
- on wall of 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 29
- Isaiah 13
- Jeremiah 13
- 2 Chronicles 9
- Ezekiel 9
- 2 Kings 8
21 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 14:22And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
- Exodus 14:29But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
- Leviticus 25:29And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
- Leviticus 25:30And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.
- Leviticus 25:31But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.
- Deuteronomy 3:5All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
All 123 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
חוֹמָה chomah · wall
wall
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wall” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WALL, noun
[Latin, stake, post, probably originally a fence of stakes, a palisade or stockade; the first rude fortification of uncivilized men.]
- A work or structure of stone, brick or other materials, raised to some highth, and intended for a defense or security.
- Walls, in the plural, is used for fortifications in general; works for defense.
- A defense; means of security or protection. 1 Samuel 25:16
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.