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# חֹרֹונָיִם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2773

**Horonaim** — used 4 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

Horonaim [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2773/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֹרוֹנַיִם: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2773/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (poss. two hollows, caves, ravines, v. בֵּית חוֹרֹן)—דֶּרֶךְ חרונים Is 15:5 Je 48:3, מוֹרַד חֹרוֹנָ֑יִם Je 48:5, חֹרֹנַיִם 48:34, city of Moab; = MI31.32 חורנן (i.e. prob. הוֹרֹנֵן); 𝔊 Αρωνιειμ, Ωρωναιμ.—On חֹרֹנַיִם 𝔊 Jos 13:10, 11 2 S 13:34 v. We Dr and בֵּית חוֹרֹן.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Horonaim (2); of Horonaim (2).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 48:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.3/#tree)

ק֥וֹל צְעָקָ֖ה מֵחֹֽרוֹנָ֑יִם שֹׁ֖ד וָשֶׁ֥בֶר גָּדֽוֹל׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].sound of.a.cry.of.distress from Horonaim devastation and destruction great

*JPS 1917:* Hark! a cry from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction!

[Jeremiah 48:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.5/#tree)

כִּ֚י מַעֲלֵ֣ה הַלּוּחִ֔יתבִּבְכִ֖י יַֽעֲלֶה־בֶּ֑כִי כִּ֚י בְּמוֹרַ֣ד חוֹרֹנַ֔יִם צָרֵ֥י צַֽעֲקַת־שֶׁ֖בֶר שָׁמֵֽעוּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) the.ascent of.(the) Luhith with weeping someone.will.ascend weeping (dm) on the.descent of.Horonaim \[the\].distresses of.the.cry.of.distress of.destruction people.will.hear

*JPS 1917:* For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for in the going down of Horonaim they have heard the distressing cry of destruction.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2773.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2773/): 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).