2583. chanah
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chanah: to decline, bend down, encamp
Original Word: חָנָה
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: chanah
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-naw')
Short Definition: camped

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
a prim. root
Definition
to decline, bend down, encamp
NASB Translation
besieged* (2), camp (25), camped (96), camping (5), coming to an end (1), encamp (3), encamped (3), encamps (2), pitched (2), remained camped (3), Settling (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
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 Isaiah 29:3; Zechariah 9:8; חָנוּ Numbers 2:34 2t.; וְחָנוּ consecutive Numbers 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 Numbers 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 חֲנוֺת הַיּוֺם Judges 19:9 ("" ׳רָפָה הַיּ לַעֲרוֺב; also ׳נְטוֺת הַיּ V:8; הַיּוֺם רַד מְאֹד Judges 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), Genesis 33:18 (E; followed by אֶתפֿני).

b. of Israel at Exodus and in wilderness Exodus 13:20 (ב) Exodus 14:2 (לִפְנֵי), Exodus 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 Nehemiah 11:25).

c. of armies: (1) Israel (conquering Canaan, etc.) Joshua 4:19; Joshua 5:10 + often; (2) Philistines 1 Samuel 4:1; 1 Samuel 13:16; 2 Samuel 23:23 +; usually followed by ב location Numbers 10:31; 1 Samuel 4:1; 1 Samuel 13:16; Joshua 4:19; 1 Samuel 13:5 + 63t. (וַיַּחֲנוּ בְ 2 Samuel 24:5 read וַיָּחֵלּוּ מִן ᵐ5L We Dr see חלל); so of locusts in hedges (in simile) Nahum 3:17; also followed by עַל = by, near Exodus 14:2,9; Exodus 15:27; Numbers 1:52; Numbers 2:2,5,12,27; Numbers 3:29,35 (על ירך), Numbers 33:10; Judges 7:1; 1 Samuel 4:1; עלפֿני השׂדה (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; Judges 20:19; 1 Samuel 11:1; 2 Samuel 12:28; 1 Kings 16:15; 2 Kings 25:1; 2Chronicles 32:1; Jeremiah 50:29; Jeremiah 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 סביב לְ 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 Numbers 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.



Strong's
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

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