חוֹמָהchôwmâh

wall

Pronunciation: kho-maw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2346

Meanings

1. usually term for wall of city (Deuteronomy 28:52; Joshua 2:15; Joshua 6:5)

2. wall, of a building

3. figurative (Exodus 14:22; Exodus 14:29; Nahum 3:8)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 133 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 14:22 So the people of Israel walked through the middle of the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on each side!
  • Exodus 14:29 But the people of Israel had walked through the middle of the sea on dry ground, as the water stood up like a wall on both sides.
  • Leviticus 25:29 “Anyone who sells a house inside a walled town has the right to buy it back for a full year after its sale. During that year, the seller retains the right to buy it back.
  • Leviticus 25:30 But if it is not bought back within a year, the sale of the house within the walled town cannot be reversed. It will become the permanent property of the buyer. It will not be returned to the original owner in the Year of Jubilee.
  • Leviticus 25:31 But a house in a village—a settlement without fortified walls—will be treated like property in the countryside. Such a house may be bought back at any time, and it must be returned to the original owner in the Year of Jubilee.
  • Deuteronomy 3:5 These towns were all fortified with high walls and barred gates. We also took many unwalled villages at the same time.
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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).