אָהַלʼâhal

tent, move tent from place to place

Pronunciation: aw-hal' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H167

Meanings

Pi`el: pitch one's tent (Isaiah 13:20)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 13:12 So Abram settled in the land of Canaan, and Lot moved his tents to a place near Sodom and settled among the cities of the plain.
  • Genesis 13:18 So Abram moved his camp to Hebron and settled near the oak grove belonging to Mamre. There he built another altar to the Lord.
  • Isaiah 13:20 Babylon will never be inhabited again. It will remain empty for generation after generation. Nomads will refuse to camp there, and shepherds will not bed down their sheep.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).