Window
חַלּוֹןStrong’s H2474challon (chal-lon)
Appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Challon is the Hebrew word usually translated “window”, “windows” and “window of”. It appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:”
Meaning
- Window (piercing of the wall)
How it's translated
- the window 9
- and windows 7
- in the window 3
- the windows 3
- and the windows 2
- window of 1
- windows of 1
- at window of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 8
- Joshua 3
- 2 Kings 3
- Genesis 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Judges 1
14 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 26:8And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
- Joshua 2:15Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
- Joshua 2:18Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father’s household, home unto thee.
- Joshua 2:21And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.
- Judges 5:28The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
- 1 Samuel 19:12So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
Hebrew dictionary
חַלּוֹן challon · window
window (piercing of the wall)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “window” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WINDOW, noun
[ G. The vulgar pronunciation is windor, as if from the Welsh gwyntdor, wind-door.]
- An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light, and of air when necessary.
- An aperture or opening.“A window shalt thou make to the ark” Genesis 6:16
- The frame or other thing that covers the aperture.
- An aperture; or rather the clouds or water-spouts.“The windows of heaven were opened” Genesis 7:11
All definitions and other forms of “window”
- Lattice or casement; or the network of wire used before the invention of glass. Judges 5:28
- Lines crossing each other.
WINDOW, verb transitive
- To furnish with windows.
- To place at a window [Unusual.]
- To break into openings. [Unusual.]
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.