Strong's Hebrew · H2356
H2356 chôwr
חוֹר
khore
hole
Looking for Greek G2356 thrēskeía? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H2356. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
chôwr appears 7 times in Scripture, in 1 Samuel, 2 Kings, Job, Song of Solomon, Ezekiel, Nahum and Zechariah. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
a cavity, socket, den
In the King James Version
cave, hole.
Derivation
or (shortened) חֹר; the same as H2352 (חוּר);
Appears 7 times in Scripture
“Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the house of the LORD. There the priests who guarded the threshold put all the money brought into the house of the LORD.”
“so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.”
“The lion mauled enough for its cubs and strangled prey for the lioness. It filled its dens with the kill, and its lairs with mauled prey.”
“My beloved put his hand to the latch; my heart pounded for him.”
“So the two of them showed themselves to the outpost of the Philistines, who exclaimed, “Look, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes in which they were hiding!””
“And this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.”
“Then He brought me to the entrance to the court, and I looked and saw a hole in the wall.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
