TBESH · H2346G
חוֹמָה · cho.mah · wall
wall
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חוֹמָה (cho.mah) means “wall” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: kho-maw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
חוֹמָה · cho.mah · wall
wall
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חוֹמָה · cho.mah · (Broad) Wall
wall Combined with ra.chav (רָחָב "Broad" H7342)
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feminine active participle of an unused root apparently meaning to join; a wall of protection
KJV glosses: wall, walled.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the wall | 39 |
| the walls | 12 |
| wall | 10 |
| your walls | 8 |
| walls | 7 |
| a wall | 5 |
| of the wall | 5 |
| with walls | 5 |
| the two walls | 3 |
| and the wall | 2 |
| on the wall | 2 |
| to the walls | 2 |
| upon the walls | 2 |
| against your walls | 1 |
| along the wall | 1 |
| am a wall | 1 |
| and walls | 1 |
| and within my walls | 1 |
| as its walls | 1 |
| from the wall | 1 |
| he also repaired the wall | 1 |
| her walls | 1 |
| in a walled | 1 |
| in the walled | 1 |
| in the walls | 1 |
| is a wall | 1 |
| it had a wall | 1 |
| o wall | 1 |
| of it | 1 |
| of the city | 1 |
| of the walls | 1 |
| so the wall | 1 |
| the city wall | 1 |
| their wall | 1 |
| then the wall | 1 |
| to its wall | 1 |
| to the wall | 1 |
| where the wall | 1 |
| whose wall | 1 |
| whose walls | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the wall | 19 |
| upon the wall | 10 |
| wall | 9 |
| on the wall | 8 |
| and the wall | 7 |
| a wall | 6 |
| the walls | 6 |
| walls | 6 |
| thy walls | 4 |
| upon thy walls | 3 |
| between the two walls | 2 |
| from the wall | 2 |
| in the wall | 2 |
| of the wall | 2 |
| to the wall | 2 |
| with walls | 2 |
| without walls | 2 |
| against thy walls | 1 |
| all of us to the wall | 1 |
| all the wall | 1 |
| all the walls | 1 |
| and against all the walls | 1 |
| and all the wall | 1 |
| and behold a wall | 1 |
| and every wall | 1 |
| and for the wall | 1 |
| and on the wall | 1 |
| and within my walls | 1 |
| any more unto him yea the wall | 1 |
| between two walls | 1 |
| betwixt the two walls | 1 |
| even unto the wall | 1 |
| from off the wall | 1 |
| her wall | 1 |
| her walls | 1 |
| in a walled | 1 |
| in the walled | 1 |
| it had a wall | 1 |
| it upon the walls | 1 |
| now it came to pass when the wall | 1 |
| o wall | 1 |
| of the walls | 1 |
| of this wall | 1 |
| of thy walls | 1 |
| so the wall | 1 |
| that the wall | 1 |
| that the walls | 1 |
| thee thy walls | 1 |
| thereof and the wall | 1 |
| they were a wall | 1 |
| thou the walls | 1 |
| unto the wall | 1 |
| upon a wall | 1 |
| upon him from the wall | 1 |
| upon the walls | 1 |
| we the wall | 1 |
| which have no wall | 1 |
| will be unto her a wall | 1 |
Page 2 of 3. 123 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was beside him, said, “If even a fox were to climb up on what they are building, it would break down their wall of stones!”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 3.35
So we rebuilt the wall until all of it was joined together up to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 3.38
When Sanballat and Tobiah, together with the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites, heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being closed, they were furious,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 4.1
Meanwhile, the people of Judah said: “The strength of the laborer fails, and there is so much rubble that we will never be able to rebuild the wall.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 4.4
So I stationed men behind the lowest sections of the wall, at the vulnerable areas. I stationed them by families with their swords, spears, and bows.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 4.7
When our enemies heard that we were aware of their scheme and that God had frustrated it, each of us returned to his own work on the wall.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 4.9
who were rebuilding the wall. The laborers who carried materials worked with one hand and held a weapon with the other.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 4.11
Then I said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people: “The work is great and extensive, and we are spread out far from one another along the wall.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 4.13
Instead, I devoted myself to the construction of the wall, and all my servants were gathered there for the work; we did not acquire any land.
Read word by wordWhen Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left—though to that time I had not yet installed the doors in the gates—
Read word by wordthat read: “It is reported among the nations—and Geshem agrees—that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and this is why you are building the wall. According to these reports, you are to become their king,
Read word by wordSo the wall was completed in fifty-two days, on the twenty-fifth of Elul.
Read word by wordWhen the wall had been rebuilt and I had set the doors in place, the gatekeepers, singers, and Levites were appointed.
Read word by wordAt the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from all their homes and brought to Jerusalem to celebrate the joyous dedication with thanksgiving and singing, accompanied by cymbals, harps, and lyres.
Read word by wordAfter the priests and Levites had purified themselves, they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.
Read word by wordThen I brought the leaders of Judah up on the wall, and I appointed two great thanksgiving choirs. One was to proceed along the top of the wall to the right, toward the Dung Gate.
Read word by wordAt the Fountain Gate they went directly up the steps of the City of David on the ascent to the wall and passed above the house of David to the Water Gate on the east.
Read word by wordThe second thanksgiving choir proceeded to the left, and I followed it with half the people along the top of the wall, past the Tower of the Ovens to the Broad Wall,
Read word by wordbut I warned them, “Why are you camping in front of the wall? If you do it again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on, they did not return on the Sabbath.
Read word by wordIn Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 51.20
Day and night they encircle the walls, while malice and trouble lie within.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 55.11
A rich man’s wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.
Read word by wordLike a city whose walls are broken down is a man who does not control his temper.
Read word by wordI encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city. They beat me and bruised me; they took away my cloak, those guardians of the walls.
Read word by wordIf she is a wall, we will build a tower of silver upon her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.
Read word by wordI am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. So I have become in his eyes like one who brings peace.
Read word by wordagainst every high tower, against every fortified wall,
Read word by wordYou counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore them down to strengthen the wall.
Read word by wordYou built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago.
Read word by wordThe high-walled fortress will be brought down, cast to the ground, into the dust.
Read word by wordIn that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation is established as its walls and ramparts.
Read word by wordthis iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly—in an instant!
Read word by wordThen Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
Read word by wordBut the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
Read word by wordBehold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me.
Read word by wordI will give them, in My house and within My walls, a memorial and a name better than that of sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.
Read word by wordForeigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Although I struck you in anger, yet in favor I will show you mercy.
Read word by wordNo longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.
Read word by wordOn your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves,
Read word by wordFor I am about to summon all the clans and kingdoms of the north,” declares the LORD. “Their kings will come and set up their thrones at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem. They will attack all her surrounding walls and all the other cities of Judah.
Read word by wordNow behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.
Read word by wordThen I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save and deliver you, declares the LORD.
Read word by wordthis is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.
Read word by wordWhen Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled. They left the city at night by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls, and they went out along the route to the Arabah.
Read word by wordThe Chaldeans set fire to the palace of the king and to the houses of the people, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
Read word by word“I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will consume the fortresses of Ben-hadad.”
Read word by wordRaise a war cry against her on every side! She has thrown up her hands in surrender; her towers have fallen; her walls are torn down. Since this is the vengeance of the LORD, take out your vengeance upon her; as she has done, do the same to her.
Read word by wordRaise a banner against the walls of Babylon; post the guard; station the watchmen; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both devised and accomplished what He spoke against the people of Babylon.
Read word by wordI will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
Read word by wordThis is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”
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