Lexical Summary chanah: to decline, bend down, encamp Original Word: חָנָהTransliteration: 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 tentA 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 חָנָה 1 Samuel 26:5; Isaiah 29:1; וְחָנִ֫יתִי consecutive 29:3; Zechariah 9:8; חָנוּ Numbers 2:34 2t.; וְחָנוּ consecutive 1:52; Imperfect וַיִּחַן Genesis 26:17 9t.; 3 feminine singular תַּחֲנֶה Psalm 27:3; יַחֲנוּ Numbers 1:50 13t. Numbers + Exodus 14:2: וַיַּחֲנוּ Exodus 13:26 79t. (of which 42 in Numbers 33); וַיַּחֲנוּן Judges 11:18; 2masculine plural תַּחֲנוּ Exodus 14:2; 1plural וַנַּחֲנֶה Ezra 8:15; Imperative חֲנֵה 2 Samuel 12:28; חֲנוּ Numbers 31:19; Jeremiah 50:29; Infinitive חֲנוֺת Judges 19:9; חֲנֹת Numbers 1:51; suffix חֲנֹתֵנוּ 10:31; חֲנֹתְכֶם Deuteronomy 1:33; Participle חֹנֶה Exodus 18:5; Psalm 34:8; feminine חֹנָה 2 Samuel 23:13; 1 Chronicles 11:15; חֹנָ֑ךְ Psalm 53:6; plural חֹנִים Exodus 14:9 11t.; חוֺנִים Numbers 2:2; Nahum 3:17; — 1 decline, of day drawing to its close הַיּוֺם חֲנוֺת Judges 19:9 ("" לַעֲרוֺב הַיּ ׳רָפָה; also הַיּ ׳נְטוֺת V:8; מְאֹד רַד הַיּוֺם 19:11). 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 ("" ישׁבו 11:25). 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 וַיַּחֲנוּ 2 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; אשׁרשָׁ֗֗֗ם Exodus 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. מֵעֵבֶר Numbers 21:13; מחוץ 31:19; בין 1 Samuel 17:1; נגד 1 Kings 20:27 etc.; followed by accusative of location 2 Samuel 17:26; followed by suffix accusative with hostile sense חֹנָ֑ךָ Psalm 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. |