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# חַוָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2333

**tent-village** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

tent-village [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2333/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חַוָּה²: n.f. tent-village [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2333/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. tent-village—Pl. חַוֹּתֵיהֶם Nu 32:41 (JE), cf. Di. Elsewhere in cpd. appellative, almost = n.pr. חַוֹּת יָאִיר Dt 3:14 Jos 13:30 (D), Ju 10:4 1 K 4:13 1 Ch 2:23.—i. חַוָּה n.pr.f. v. supr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the villages (6); villages (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 32:41](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.41/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.41/#tree)

וְיָאִ֤יר בֶּן־מְנַשֶּׁה֙ הָלַ֔ךְ וַיִּלְכֹּ֖ד אֶת־חַוֺּתֵיהֶ֑ם וַיִּקְרָ֥א אֶתְהֶ֖ן חַוֺּ֥ת יָאִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* and Jair the.son of.Manasseh he.went and he.captured (et) villages their and he.called them the.villages of.Jair

*JPS 1917:* And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the villages thereof, and called them Havvoth-jair.

[Joshua 13:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.30/#tree)

וַיְהִ֣י גְבוּלָ֗ם מִמַּחֲנַ֨יִם כָּֽל־הַבָּשָׁ֜ן כָּֽל־מַמְלְכ֣וּת ׀ ע֣וֹג מֶֽלֶךְ־הַבָּשָׁ֗ן וְכָל־חַוֺּ֥ת יָאִ֛יר אֲשֶׁ֥ר בַּבָּשָׁ֖ן שִׁשִּׁ֥ים עִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* and it.was territory their from Mahanaim all (the) Bashan all the.kingdom of.Og the.king of.(the) Bashan and all the.villages of.Jair which \[are\].in (the) Bashan sixty citi\[es\]

*JPS 1917:* And their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the villages of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2333.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2333/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).