חֹדֶשׁchôdesh

(newness), new moon, month

Pronunciation: kho'-desh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2320

Meanings

1. = day, time, of new moon, as religious festival (1 Samuel 20:5; 1 Samuel 20:18; 1 Samuel 20:24)

2. as beginning with new moon, lunar month

a. a month, time (Genesis 38:24; Numbers 11:20; Numbers 11:21)

b. calendar months (Exodus 13:4; Exodus 23:15; Exodus 34:18)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 283 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 7:11 When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky.
  • Genesis 8:4 exactly five months from the time the flood began, the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
  • Genesis 8:5 Two and a half months later, as the waters continued to go down, other mountain peaks became visible.
  • Genesis 8:13 Noah was now 601 years old. On the first day of the new year, ten and a half months after the flood began, the floodwaters had almost dried up from the earth. Noah lifted back the covering of the boat and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.
  • Genesis 8:14 Two more months went by, and at last the earth was dry!
  • Genesis 29:14 Laban exclaimed, “You really are my own flesh and blood!” After Jacob had stayed with Laban for about a month,
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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).