Occurrences
Chôwmâh occurs 133 times in 123 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (2), Leviticus (3), Deuteronomy (2), Joshua (3), 1 Samuel (3), 2 Samuel (6), 1 Kings (4), 2 Kings (8), 2 Chronicles (9), Nehemiah (29), Psalms (2), Proverbs (2), Song of Songs (3), Isaiah (13), Jeremiah (13), Lamentations (3), Ezekiel (9), Joel (2), Amos (4), Nahum (2), Zechariah (1)
- Exodus 14:22 — And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall (חֹמָ֔ה) unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
- Exodus 14:29 — But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall (חֹמָ֔ה) unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
- Leviticus 25:29 — And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled (חוֹמָ֔ה) city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
- Leviticus 25:30 — And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled (חֹמָ֗ה) city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.
- Leviticus 25:31 — But the houses of the villages which have no wall (חֹמָה֙) round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.
- Deuteronomy 3:5 — All these cities were fenced with high walls (חוֹמָ֥ה), gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
- Deuteronomy 28:52 — And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls (חֹמֹתֶ֙יךָ֙) come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
- Joshua 2:15 — Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town (הַֽחוֹמָ֔ה) wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
- Joshua 2:15 — Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall (וּבַֽחוֹמָ֖ה).
- Joshua 6:5 — And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall (חוֹמַ֤ת) of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.
- Joshua 6:20 — So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall (הַֽחוֹמָ֜ה) fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
- 1 Samuel 25:16 — They were a wall (חוֹמָה֙) unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
- 1 Samuel 31:10 — And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall (בְּחוֹמַ֖ת) of Beth-shan.
- 1 Samuel 31:12 — All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall (מֵחוֹמַ֖ת) of Beth-shan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
- 2 Samuel 11:20 — And if so be that the king’s wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall (הַחוֹמָֽה)?
- 2 Samuel 11:21 — Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall (הַֽחוֹמָה֙), that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
- 2 Samuel 11:21 — Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall (הַֽחוֹמָ֑ה)? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
- 2 Samuel 11:24 — And the shooters shot from off the wall (הַחוֹמָ֔ה) upon thy servants; and some of the king’s servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
- 2 Samuel 18:24 — And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall (הַ֣חוֹמָ֔ה), and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.
- 2 Samuel 20:15 — And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall (הַחוֹמָֽה), to throw it down.
- 2 Samuel 20:21 — The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall (הַחוֹמָֽה).
- 1 Kings 3:1 — And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall (חוֹמַ֥ת) of Jerusalem round about.
- 1 Kings 4:13 — The son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls (חוֹמָ֖ה) and brasen bars:
- 1 Kings 9:15 — And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall (חוֹמַ֣ת) of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
- 1 Kings 20:30 — But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall (הַחוֹמָ֔ה) fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
- 2 Kings 3:27 — Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall (הַ֣חֹמָ֔ה). And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
- 2 Kings 6:26 — And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall (הַחֹמָ֑ה), there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
- 2 Kings 6:30 — And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall (הַחֹמָ֑ה), and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.
- 2 Kings 14:13 — And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall (בְּחוֹמַ֨ת) of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
- 2 Kings 18:26 — Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rab-shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews’ language in the ears of the people that are on the wall (הַחֹמָֽה).
- 2 Kings 18:27 — But Rab-shakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall (הַ֣חֹמָ֔ה), that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
- 2 Kings 25:4 — And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls (הַחֹמֹתַ֗יִם), which is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
- 2 Kings 25:10 — And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls (חוֹמֹ֥ת) of Jerusalem round about.
- 2 Chronicles 8:5 — Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fenced cities, with walls (חוֹמ֖וֹת), gates, and bars;
- 2 Chronicles 14:7 — Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls (חוֹמָ֣ה), and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.
- 2 Chronicles 25:23 — And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall (בְּחוֹמַ֣ת) of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
- 2 Chronicles 26:6 — And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall (ח֣וֹמַת) of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
- 2 Chronicles 26:6 — And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall (חוֹמַ֣ת) of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
- 2 Chronicles 26:6 — And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall (חוֹמַ֣ת) of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
- 2 Chronicles 27:3 — He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall (וּבְחוֹמַ֥ת) of Ophel he built much.
- 2 Chronicles 32:5 — Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall (הַחוֹמָ֨ה) that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.
- 2 Chronicles 32:5 — Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall (הַחוֹמָ֣ה) without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.
- 2 Chronicles 32:18 — Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall (הַֽחוֹמָ֔ה), to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.
- 2 Chronicles 33:14 — Now after this he built a wall (חוֹמָ֣ה) without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 36:19 — And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall (חוֹמַ֣ת) of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
- Nehemiah 1:3 — And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall (וְחוֹמַ֤ת) of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.
- Nehemiah 2:8 — And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall (וּלְחוֹמַ֣ת) of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
- Nehemiah 2:13 — And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls (בְּחוֹמֹ֤ת) of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.
- Nehemiah 2:15 — Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall (בַּחוֹמָ֑ה), and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.
- Nehemiah 2:17 — Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall (חוֹמַ֣ת) of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.