Cavern
חֻרStrong’s H2352chur
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chur is the Hebrew word usually translated “hole of” and “holes”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.”
Meaning
- Hole
How it's translated
- hole of 1
- in holes 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
1 book in all.
Hebrew dictionary
חֻר chur · cavern
hole
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cavern” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CAVERN, noun
A deep hollow place in the earth. In general, it differs from cave in greater depth, and in being applied most usually to natural hollows, or chasms.
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.