(Broad) Wall
חוֹמָהStrong’s H7342chomah (cho-mah)
Appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chomah is the Hebrew word usually translated “broad of”, “broad” and “wide of”. It appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament.
“These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.”
Meaning
- Wall
- Broad, wide
- § broad, wide
How it's translated
- broad of 6
- broad 5
- and wide of 2
- and spacious 1
- and extensive 1
- and broad 1
- wide 1
- in the broad place 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 5
- Psalms 4
- Job 2
- Proverbs 2
- Isaiah 2
- Genesis 1
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 3:8And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
- Judges 18:10When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.
- 1 Chronicles 4:40And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.
- Nehemiah 3:8Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall.
- Nehemiah 4:19And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.
- Nehemiah 7:4Now the city was large and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded.
Hebrew dictionary
חוֹמָה chomah · (Broad) Wall
wall Combined with ra.chav (רָחָב "Broad" H7342)
רָחָב rachav · broad
broad, wide Also means: ra.chav (רָחָב ": arrogant" H7342I)
רָחָב rachav · Broad
§ broad, wide
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “broad” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BROAD, adjective
brawd. [Latin gradior; a root of extensive use.]
- Wide; extended in breadth, or from side to side, as distinguished from long, or extended from end to end.
- Wide; extensive; vast; as the broad expanse of ocean.
- Large; as a broad mixture of falsehood.
- Open; clear; not covered, confined or concealed; as in broad sunshine.
All definitions
- Gross; coarse; as broad mirth; broad nonsense.
- Plain; tending to obscenity; as a broad comment.
- Bold; not delicate; not reserved; as broad words.
- Comprehensive.
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.