Hole
חֹרStrong’s H2356chor
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chor is the Hebrew word usually translated “hole”, “holes” and “holes of”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.”
Meaning
- Hole, cave
How it's translated
- a hole 2
- the holes 1
- holes of 1
- the hole 1
- hole its 1
- in sockets their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 1
- 2 Kings 1
- Job 1
- Song of Solomon 1
- Ezekiel 1
- Nahum 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 14:11And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.
- 2 Kings 12:9But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.
- Job 30:6To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
- Song of Solomon 5:4My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
- Ezekiel 8:7And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.
- Nahum 2:12The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
Hebrew dictionary
חֹר chor · hole
hole, cave
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hole” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HOLE, noun
- A hollow place or cavity in any solid body, of any shape or dimensions, natural or artificial. Isaiah 11:8Ezekiel 8:7
- A perforation; an aperture; an opening in or through a solid body, left in the work or made by an instrument.“Jehoida took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it” 2 Kings 12:9
- A mean habitation; a narrow or dark lodging.
- An opening or means of escape; a subterfuge; in the vulgar phrase, he has a hole to creep out at.
All definitions and other forms of “hole”
- An opening in a garment for the arm.
HOLE, verb intransitive
To go into a hole
HOLE, verb transitive
To cut, dig or make a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.
- To drive into a bag, as in billiards.
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.