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# חֲכִילָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2444

**Hachilah** — used 3 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

Hachilah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2444/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲכִילָה: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2444/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (dark) a hill in southern Judah, on edge of wilderness of Ziph 1 S 23:19; 26:1, 3 (GlaserSkizze ii, 326 reads also for חוילה, q.v., in 1 S 15:7); 𝔊 Εχελα (26:1 B Χελμαθ, A Αχιλα) always c. art.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hakilah (3).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 26:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.26.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.26.1/#tree)

וַיָּבֹ֤אוּ הַזִּפִים֙ אֶל־שָׁא֔וּל הַגִּבְעָ֖תָה לֵאמֹ֑ר הֲל֨וֹא דָוִ֤ד מִסְתַּתֵּר֙ בְּגִבְעַ֣ת הַחֲכִילָ֔ה עַ֖ל פְּנֵ֥י הַיְשִׁימֹֽן׃

*Word for word:* and they.went the Ziphites to Saul to (the) Gibeah (cmp) ? not \[is\].David hiding.himself on the.hill of.(the) Hakilah on the.face of.(the) Jeshimon

*JPS 1917:* And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying: 'Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon?'

[1 Samuel 23:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.23.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.23.19/#tree)

וַיַּעֲל֤וּ זִפִים֙ אֶל־שָׁא֔וּל הַגִּבְעָ֖תָה לֵאמֹ֑ר הֲל֣וֹא דָ֠וִד מִסְתַּתֵּ֨ר עִמָּ֤נוּ בַמְּצָדוֹת֙ בַּחֹ֔רְשָׁה בְּגִבְעַת֙ הַֽחֲכִילָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֖ר מִימִ֥ין הַיְשִׁימֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and they.went.up Ziphites to Saul to (the) Gibeah (cmp) ? not \[is\].David hiding.himself with us in the strongholds at (the) Horesh on the.hill of.(the) Hakilah which \[is\].from the.south of.(the) Jeshimon

*JPS 1917:* Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying: 'Doth not David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2444/): 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).