Horonaim
חֹרֹנַיִםStrong’s H2773choronayim (cho-ro-na-yim)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Choronayim is the Hebrew word usually translated “horonaim” and “from horonaim”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behind him.”
Meaning
- § Horonaim = "two caves"
How it's translated
- horonaim 4
- from horonaim 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 3
- 2 Samuel 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 15:5My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
- Jeremiah 48:3A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.
- Jeremiah 48:5For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.
- Jeremiah 48:34From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.
Hebrew dictionary
חֹרֹנַיִם choronayim · Horonaim
§ Horonaim = "two caves" a town of Moab
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.