Hachilah
חֲכִילָהStrong’s H2444chakhilah (cha-khi-lah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chakhilah is the Hebrew word usually translated “hakilah”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?”
Meaning
- § Hachilah = "dark"
How it's translated
- hakilah 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 26:1And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon?
- 1 Samuel 26:3And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
Hebrew dictionary
חֲכִילָה chakhilah · Hachilah
§ Hachilah = "dark" a hill is southern Judah, on the edge of the wilderness of Ziph
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.