חֲכִילָהChăkîylâh
proper name [of a location]: a hill in southern Judah, on edge of wilderness of Ziph (1 Samuel 23:19; 1 Samuel 26:1; 1 Samuel 26:3; 1 Samuel 15:7)
Pronunciation: khak-ee-law' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2444
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- 1 Samuel 23:19 But now the men of Ziph went to Saul in Gibeah and betrayed David to him. “We know where David is hiding,” they said. “He is in the strongholds of Horesh on the hill of Hakilah, which is in the southern part of Jeshimon.
- 1 Samuel 26:1 Now some men from Ziph came to Saul at Gibeah to tell him, “David is hiding on the hill of Hakilah, which overlooks Jeshimon.”
- 1 Samuel 26:3 Saul camped along the road beside the hill of Hakilah, near Jeshimon, where David was hiding. When David learned that Saul had come after him into the wilderness,
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).