Strong's Hebrew · H2346

חוֹמָה

chôwmâh · kho-maw'

wall, walled.

Definition

a wall of protection

Derivation

feminine active participle of an unused root apparently meaning to join;

Appears 132 times in Scripture

Ezekiel 42:20

So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.

Leviticus 25:30

If it is not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently transferred to its buyer and his descendants. It is not to be released in the Jubilee.

Joshua 2:15

Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window, since the house where she lived was built into the wall of the city.

Proverbs 25:28

Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who does not control his temper.

Isaiah 2:15

against every high tower, against every fortified wall,

Exodus 14:22

and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.

Deuteronomy 3:5

All these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more unwalled villages.

Exodus 14:29

But the Israelites had walked through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.

Leviticus 25:29

If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains his right of redemption until a full year after its sale; during that year it may be redeemed.

Leviticus 25:31

But houses in villages with no walls around them are to be considered as open fields. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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