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# חֲוִילָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2341

**Havilah** — 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

Havilah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2341/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲוִילָה: n.pr.terr. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2341/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.terr. (√ dub. DlPa 12 suggests חוֹל sand-land, dunes, as Heb. popular etym., MV11 give it as actual etym.; StaThLZ Apr. 28, 1894, 235 compares this, as well as חוֹל sand, with Arabic وَحَلٌ soft mud, \[damp sand\])—אֶרֶץ הַחֲוִילָה Gn 2:11 (surrounded or bordered—סבב—by river Pishon; noted for excellent gold, bdellium and shoham-stone); elsewhere without art. חֲוִילָה 10:7 = 1 Ch 1:9 as a ‘son’ of Cush (between סְבָא and סַבְתָּה); but also as a ‘son’ of יָקְטָן, a descendant of Shem Gn 10:29 = 1 Ch 1:23 (between אוֹפִיר and יוֹבָב); מֵח׳ עַד־שׁוּר Gn 25:18 said of limits of Ishmaelitish territory; cf. same limits of Amalek 1 S 15:7 (but dub.; We reads טֵילָם, cf. v 4 and vid. Dr; GlaserSkizze ii, 326 reads חֲכִילָה as 23:19; 26:1, 3).—Most have supposed several regions named ח׳ to be indicated in these passages:—e.g. Thes 1. Arabian shore of Pers. Gulf Gn 10:29 etc. 2. Ethiopian coast Gn 10:7 etc. 3. India Gn 2:11 (regarded as indef. extension of 1). Di Gn 10:7 distinguishes 1 and 2 either as quite distinct, or as different settlements of one great people, and (on Gn 2:14) thinks that כל ארץ ח׳ Gn 2:11 implies vague extension eastward. DlPa 12 ff. 57 ff. identif. ח׳ in all passages with NE. part of Syrian desert, so E. MeyerGesch. Alterth. i. 224; GlaserSkizze ii. 323 ff. with central and NE. Arabia. The question is still undecided.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Havilah (7).

## In the verses

[Genesis 10:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.29/#tree)

וְאֶת־אוֹפִ֥ר וְאֶת־חֲוִילָ֖ה וְאֶת־יוֹבָ֑ב כָּל־אֵ֖לֶּה בְּנֵ֥י יָקְטָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and (et) Ophir and (et) Havilah and (et) Jobab all these \[were\].the.sons of.Joktan

*JPS 1917:* and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.

[1 Chronicles 1:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.23/#tree)

וְאֶת־אוֹפִ֥יר וְאֶת־חֲוִילָ֖ה וְאֶת־יוֹבָ֑ב כָּל־אֵ֖לֶּה בְּנֵ֥י יָקְטָֽן׃ס

*Word for word:* and (et) Ophir and (et) Havilah and (et) Jobab all these \[were\].the.sons of.Joktan

*JPS 1917:* and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2341/): 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).