Horonite
חֹרֹנִיStrong’s H2772choroni (cho-ro-ni)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Choroni is the Hebrew word usually translated “horonite”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.”
Meaning
- An inhabitant of Horonaim in Moabthe designation of Sanballat, the opponent of Nehemiah
How it's translated
- the horonite 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Nehemiah 2:19But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
- Nehemiah 13:28And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.
Hebrew dictionary
חֹרֹנִי choroni · Horonite
Someone descended from Horon(?), first mentioned at Neh.2.10 § Horonite = "native of Horonaim" 1) an inhabitant of Horonaim in Moab 1a) the designation of Sanballat, the opponent of Nehemiah
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.