2583. chanah
Lexical Summary
chanah: to decline, bend down, encamp
Original Word: חָנָה
Transliteration: chanah
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-naw')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to decline, bend down, encamp
Meaning: to incline, to decline, to pitch a, tent, gen, to encamp
Strong's Concordance
abide in tents, camp, dwell, encamp, grow to an end, lie, pitch tent, rest in tent

A primitive root (compare chanan); properly, to incline; by implication, to decline (of the slanting rays of evening); specifically, to pitch a tent; gen. To encamp (for abode or siege) -- abide (in tents), camp, dwell, encamp, grow to an end, lie, pitch (tent), rest in tent.

see HEBREW chanan

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2583. chanah

חָנָה143 verb decline, bend down, encamp (Aramaic to aim at, incline towards, reach; Zinjirli מחנת‎ construct camp, Inscription Panammu13. 16. 17; Arabic bend, curve, bend down; Assyrian mûnu, mênu and tênû, couch, mânîtu, house, ZimBP 44, 45 Dl in Zim117) —

Qal Perfect חָנָה1 Samuel 26:5; Isaiah 29:1; וְחָנִ֫יתִי‎ consecutive 29:3; Zechariah 9:8; חָנוּNumbers 2:34 2t.; וְחָנוּ‎ consecutive 1:52; Imperfect וַיִּחַןGenesis 26:17 9t.; 3 feminine singular תַּחֲנֶהPsalm 27:3; יַחֲנוּNumbers 1:50 13t. Numbers + Exodus 14:2: וַיַּחֲנוּ‎ Exodus 13:26 79t. (of which 42 in Numbers 33); וַיַּחֲנוּןJudges 11:18; 2masculine plural תַּחֲנוּExodus 14:2; 1plural וַנַּחֲנֶהEzra 8:15; Imperative חֲנֵה2 Samuel 12:28; חֲנוּNumbers 31:19; Jeremiah 50:29; Infinitive חֲנוֺתJudges 19:9; חֲנֹתNumbers 1:51; suffix חֲנֹתֵנוּ10:31; חֲנֹתְכֶםDeuteronomy 1:33; Participle חֹנֶהExodus 18:5; Psalm 34:8; feminine חֹנָה2 Samuel 23:13; 1 Chronicles 11:15; חֹנָ֑ךְPsalm 53:6; plural חֹנִיםExodus 14:9 11t.; חוֺנִיםNumbers 2:2; Nahum 3:17; —

1 decline, of day drawing to its close הַיּוֺם חֲנוֺתJudges 19:9 ("" לַעֲרוֺב הַיּ ׳רָפָה‎; also הַיּ ׳נְטוֺת‎ V:8; מְאֹד רַד הַיּוֺם19:11).

2 encamp (properly verge toward, incline to, settle at, of goal of day's march): —

a. of single nomad Genesis 26:17 (J; followed by ב‎), 33:18 (E; followed by אֶתפֿני‎).

b. of Israel at Exodus and in wilderness Exodus 13:20 (ב‎) 14:2 (לִפְנֵי‎), 14:2 (עַל‎), + approximately 80 t. (Hexateuch chiefly P); also (absolute) Numbers 9:18, 20, 22, 23 compare Ezra 8:15; Nehemiah 11:30 so they encamped (i.e. settled, or were settled) from Beersheba to the valley of Hinnom ("" ישׁבו11:25).

c. of armies: (1) Israel (conquering Canaan, etc.) Joshua 4:19; 5:10 + often; (2) Philistines 1 Samuel 4:1; 13:16; 2 Samuel 23:23 +; usually followed by ב‎ location Numbers 10:31; 1 Samuel 4:1; 13:16; Joshua 4:19; 1 Samuel 13:5 + 63t. (בְ וַיַּחֲנוּ2 Samuel 24:5 read ᵐ5 מִן וַיָּחֵלּוּL We Dr see חלל‎); so of locusts in hedges (in simile) Nahum 3:17; also followed by עַל‎ = by, near Exodus 14:2, 9; 15:27; Numbers 1:52; 2:2, 5, 12, 27; 3:29, 35 (ירך על‎), 33:10; Judges 7:1; 1 Samuel 4:1; השׂדה עלפֿני‎ (על‎ in different sense) 2 Samuel 11:11; followed by עַל‎ also = against, encamp with hostile purpose Joshua 10:5, 31, 34; Judges 6:4; 20:19; 1 Samuel 11:1; 2 Samuel 12:28; 1 Kings 16:15; 2 Kings 25:1; 2 Chronicles 32:1; Jeremiah 50:29; 52:4; Psalm 27:3; followed by אֶלֿ‎ in same sense Joshua 11:5; metaphor of God's hostility to apostate Jerusalem (על‎) Isaiah 29:3; followed by also לְ‎ = at, by Numbers 2:34; Zechariah 9:8; אשׁרשָׁ֗֗֗םExodus 18:5; 1 Samuel 26:5; followed by לְ סביב‎ for protection Numbers 1:50, 53, compare metaphor Psalm 34:8, but also hostility Job 19:12; also follwed by other prepositions and prepositional phrases, e.g. מֵעֵבֶרNumbers 21:13; מחוץ31:19; בין1 Samuel 17:1; נגד1 Kings 20:27 etc.; followed by accusative of location 2 Samuel 17:26; followed by suffix accusative with hostile sense חֹנָ֑ךָPsalm 53:6; without preposition or noun following, in sense of encamp, be or abide in encampment Numbers 9:18, 20, 22, 23; Ezra 8:15; 2 Samuel 11:11 +; poetic of David in Jerusalem, Isaiah 29:1 city in which David fixed his camp.








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