Coast
חוֹףStrong’s H2348choph
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Choph is the Hebrew word usually translated “coast of”, “harbor of” and “on coast of”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.”
Meaning
- Seashore, coast, shore
How it's translated
- coast of 3
- to coast of 2
- to a harbor of 1
- and on coast of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Joshua 1
- Judges 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 1:7Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
- Joshua 9:1And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;
- Judges 5:17Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
- Jeremiah 47:7How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it.
- Ezekiel 25:16Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
Hebrew dictionary
חוֹף choph · coast
seashore, coast, shore
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “coast” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COAST, noun
- The exterior line, limit or border of a country, as in Scripture. Deuteronomy 11:24Numbers 24:24Exodus 10:4
- The edge or margin of the land next to the sea; the sea-shore.
- A side; applied to objects indefinitely, by Bacon and Newton.
- The country near the sea-shore; as, populous towns along the coast
All definitions and other forms of “coast”
COAST, verb intransitive
- To sail near a coast; to sail by or near the shore, or in sight of land.
- To sail from port to port in the same country.
COAST, verb transitive
- To sail by or near to; as, to coast the American shore.
- To draw near; to approach; to follow.
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.