חָנָה chanah

Hebrew word for “to camp” · Strong’s H2583 · used 143 times in 135 verses

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Meaning

1) to decline, incline, encamp, bend down, lay siege against; 1a) (Qal); 1a1) to decline; 1a2) to encamp

How it is translated

Glosses given for chanah in context, with how often each is used:

• encamped 104
• will encamp 13
• those who encamp 5
• which encamp 3
• encamp 3
• encamping 3
• camped 2
• may encamp 1
• when encamps 1
• encamping we 1
• camp 1
• encamped ! 1

Where it is used

Also in 8 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 33 (42), Numbers 2 (7), Numbers 9 (5), Numbers 1 (4), Numbers 3 (4), Numbers 21 (4), Numbers 10 (3), Joshua 10 (3), Exodus 14 (2), Judges 6 (2)

Forms

• ויחנו 81
• יחנו 14
• ויחן 10
• חנה 6
• חנים 5
• חנו 5
• והחנים 4
• החנים 3
• וחניתי 2
• תחנו 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with chanah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• נָסַע nasa “to set out” 60
• מִדְבָּר midbar “wilderness” 17
• מַחֲנֶה machaneh “camp” 13
• מִשְׁכָּן mishkan “tabernacle” 10
• פְּלִשְׁתִּי pelishti “Philistine” 11
• אָסַף asaph “to gather” 9
• שָׁם sham “there” 12
• סָבִיב saviv “around” 9
• דֶּגֶל degel “standard” 5
• מוֹאָב moav “Moab” 7
• אֵתָם etam “Etham” 4
• פִּי הַחִירֹת pi hachirot “Pi-hahiroth” 4

Key verses

The verses using chanah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Numbers 1:50 — But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear…
• Numbers 1:53 — But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites…
• Numbers 2:2 — Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father’s house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation…
• Numbers 2:3 — And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of…
• 1 Samuel 11:1 — Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh-gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve…
• 1 Samuel 13:5 — And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on…
• 2 Kings 25:1 — And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all…
• Psalms 34:7 — The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
• Psalms 53:5 — There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God…
• Jeremiah 50:29 — Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her…
• Jeremiah 52:4 — And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his…
• Zechariah 9:8 — And I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through…

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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.