Midvash

חֹרֹנַיִםChôrônayim

proper name [of a location]: city of Moab (Isaiah 15:5; Jeremiah 48:3; Jeremiah 48:5; Jeremiah 48:34; Joshua 13:10)

Pronunciation: kho-ro-nah'-yim · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2773

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 4 times in the Bible.

  • Isaiah 15:5 My heart weeps for Moab. Its people flee to Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah. Weeping, they climb the road to Luhith. Their cries of distress can be heard all along the road to Horonaim.
  • Jeremiah 48:3 Listen to the cries from Horonaim, cries of devastation and great destruction.
  • Jeremiah 48:5 Her refugees weep bitterly, climbing the slope to Luhith. They cry out in terror, descending the slope to Horonaim.
  • Jeremiah 48:34 “Instead, their awful cries of terror can be heard from Heshbon clear across to Elealeh and Jahaz; from Zoar all the way to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. Even the waters of Nimrim are dried up now.

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).