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# חָנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2583

**decline** — used 143 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

decline [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2583/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָנָה: vb. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2583/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. decline, bend down, encamp (Aramaic ܚܢܳܐ to aim at, incline towards, reach; Zinj. מחנת cstr. camp, Inscr. Panammu13, 16, 17; Arabic حَنَا bend, curve, bend down; Assyrian mûnu, mênu and tênû couch, mânîtu, house, ZimBP 44, 45 Dl in Zim117)— Pf. חָנָה 1 S 26:5 Is 29:1; וְחָנִ֫יתִי consec. Is 29:3 Zc 9:8; חָנוּ Nu 2:34 + 2 times; וְחָנוּ consec. Nu 1:52; Impf. וַיִּחַן Gn 26:17 + 9 times; 3 fs. תַּחֲנֶה ψ 27:3; יַחֲנוּ Nu 1:50 + 13 times Nu + Ex 14:2: וַיַּחֲנוּ Ex 13:20 + 79 times (of which 42 in Nu 33); וַיַּחֲנוּן Ju 11:18; 2 mpl. תַּחֲנוּ Ex 14:2; 1 pl. וַנַּחֲנֶה Ezr 8:15; Imv. חֲנֵה 2 S 12:28; חֲנוּ Nu 31:19; Je 50:29; Inf. חֲנוֹת Ju 19:9; חֲנֹת Nu 1:51; sf. חֲנֹתֵנוּ Nu 10:31; חֲנֹתְכֶם Dt 1:33; Pt. חֹנֶה Ex 18:5 ψ 34:8; f. חֹנָה 2 S 23:13; 1 Ch 11:15; הֹנָ֑ךְ ψ 53:6; pl. חֹנִים Ex 14:9 + 11 times; חוֹנִים Nu 2:2; Na 3:17;— decline, of day drawing to its close חֲנוֹת הַיּוֹם Ju 19:9 (‖ רָפָה הַיּ׳ לַעֲרוֹב; also נְטוֹת הַיּ׳ v 8; הַיּוֹם רַד מְאֹד v 11). encamp (proposes verge toward, incline to, settle at, of goal of day’s march):— of single nomad Gn 26:17 (J; sq. ב), 33:18 (E; sq. אֶת־פני). of Israel at Exod. and in wilderness Ex 13:20 (ב) 14:2 (לִפְנֵי), v 2 (עַל), + c. 80 times (Hex chiefly P); also (abs.) Nu 9:18, 20, 22, 23 cf. Ezr 8:15; Ne 11:30 so they encamped (i.e. settled, or were settled) from Beersheba to the valley of Hinnom (‖ ישׁבו v 25). of armies: (1) Israel (conquering Cannan, etc.) Jos 4:19; 5:10 + often; (2) Philistines 1 S 4:1; 13:16; 2 S 23:23 +; usually sq. ב loc. Nu 10:31; 1 S 4:1; 13:16 Jos 4:19; 1 S 13:5 + 63 times (וַיַּחֲנוּ בְ 2 S 24:5 read וַיָּחֵלּוּ מִן 𝔊L We Dr v. חלל); so of locusts in hedges (in sim.) Na 3:17; also sq. עַל = by, near Ex 14:2, 9; 15:27; Nu 1:52; 2:2, 5, 12, 27; 3:29; 35 (על ירך), 33:10; Ju 7:1; 1 S 4:1; על־פני השׂדה (על in diff. sense) 2 S 11:11; sq. עַל also = against, encamp with hostile purpose Jos 10:5, 31, 34 Ju 6:4; 20:19 1 S 11:1; 2 S 12:28; 1 K 16:15; 2 K 25:1; 2 Ch 32:1; Je 50:29; 52:4 ψ 27:3; sq. אֶל־ in same sense Jos 11:5; metaph. of God’s hostility to apostate Jerusalem (על) Is 29:3; sq. also לְ = at, by Nu 2:34; Zc 9:8; אשׁר … שָׁם Ex 18:5; 1 S 26:5; sq. סביב לְ for protection Nu 1:50, 53, cf. metaph. ψ 34:8, but also hostility Jb 19:12; also sq. other prep. and prep. phrases, e.g. מֵעֵבֶר Nu 21:13; מחוץ Nu 31:19; בין 1 S 17:1; נגד 1 K 20:27 etc.; sq. acc. loc. 2 S 17:26; sq. sf. acc. with hostile sense הֹנָ֑ךְ ψ 53:6; without prep. or noun foll., in sense of encamp, be or abide in encampment Nu 9:18, 20, 22, 23; Ezr 8:15; 2 S 11:11 +; poet. of David in Jerusalem, Is 29:1 city in which David fixed his camp.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 66 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they encamped (87); they will encamp (9); he encamped (7).

## In the verses

[Numbers 21:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.10/#tree)

וַיִּסְע֖וּ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בְּאֹבֹֽת׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out the.people of.Israel and they.encamped in Oboth

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Israel journeyed, and pitched in Oboth.

[Numbers 21:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.12/#tree)

מִשָּׁ֖ם נָסָ֑עוּ וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בְּנַ֥חַל זָֽרֶד׃

*Word for word:* from there they.set.out and they.encamped in the.wadi of.Zered

*JPS 1917:* From thence they journeyed, and pitched in the valley of Zered.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2583.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2583/): 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).