חַלּוֹן challon
Hebrew word for “window” · Strong’s H2474 · used 31 times in 27 verses
Meaning
window (piercing of the wall)
How it is translated
Glosses given for challon in context, with how often each is used:
- windows 16
- window 14
- like the windows 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ezekiel | 12 | 0.6 | |
| Joshua | 3 | 0.3 | |
| 2 Kings | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Genesis | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Jeremiah | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Judges | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Samuel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Samuel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Kings | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Chronicles | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Proverbs | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Song of Solomon | 1 | 0.8 |
Also in 2 more books.
Chapters where it is used most
Ezekiel 40 (6), Joshua 2 (3), 2 Kings 9 (2), Ezekiel 41 (2), Genesis 8 (1), Genesis 26 (1), Judges 5 (1), 1 Samuel 19 (1), 2 Samuel 6 (1), 1 Kings 6 (1)
Forms
- החלון 9
- בחלון 4
- וחלונות 4
- חלוני 2
- החלנות 2
- וחלונים 2
- חלון 1
- בחלונינו 1
- וחלנות 1
- וחלוניו 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with challon more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- בַּעַד bead “about/through/for” 9
- שָׁקַף shaqaph “to look” 7
- אֵילָם elam “arches” 6
- אָטַם atam “to shutter” 4
- תָּא ta “chamber” 4
- סָבִיב saviv “around” 6
- מִדָּה middah “measure” 4
- רֹחַב rochav “width” 4
- אֹרֶךְ orekh “length” 4
- תִּמֹרָה timrah “palm” 3
- מִיכַל mikhal “Michal” 3
- אַמָּה ammah “cubit” 4
Key verses
The verses using challon that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Joshua 2:18 — Behold, 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,…
- 2 Samuel 6:16 — And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul’s daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD;…
- 2 Kings 9:30 — And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
- 2 Kings 9:32 — And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
- 1 Chronicles 15:29 — And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David…
- Song of Solomon 2:9 — My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
- Jeremiah 9:21 — For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
- Jeremiah 22:14 — That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
- Ezekiel 40:16 — And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about…
- Ezekiel 40:22 — And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they went up unto it by seven…
- Ezekiel 40:29 — And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches…
- Zephaniah 2:14 — And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their…
See all 27 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.