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Vault

חָנוּתStrong’s H2588

chanut (cha-nut)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Chanut is the Hebrew word usually translated “cell”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;”
Jeremiah 37:16 KJV
Meaning
  1. Cell, vaulted room
How it's translated
  • the cell 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Jeremiah 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    חָנוּת chanut · vault

    cell, vaulted room

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “vault” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    VAULT, noun

    [Latin vultus; a derivative of Latin volvo, volutus.]

    1. A continued arch, or an arched roof.
    2. A cellar.
    3. A cave or cavern.
    4. A repository for the dead.
    All definitions and other forms of “vault”
    1. In the manege, the leap or a horse.

    VAULT, verb transitive

    To arch; to form with a vault; or to cover with a vault; as, to vault a passage to a court.

      VAULT, verb intransitive

      1. To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.
      2. To tumble; to exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping.

      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.