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Lexicon :: Strong's H2320 - ḥōḏeš

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חֹדֶשׁ
Transliteration
ḥōḏeš
Pronunciation
kho'-desh
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
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TWOT Reference: 613b

Strong’s Definitions

חֹדֶשׁ chôdesh, kho'-desh; from H2318; the new moon; by implication, a month:—month(-ly), new moon.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 276x

The KJV translates Strong's H2320 in the following manner: month (254x), new moon (20x), monthly (1x), another (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 276x
The KJV translates Strong's H2320 in the following manner: month (254x), new moon (20x), monthly (1x), another (1x).
  1. the new moon, month, monthly

    1. the first day of the month

    2. the lunar month

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חֹדֶשׁ chôdesh, kho'-desh; from H2318; the new moon; by implication, a month:—month(-ly), new moon.
STRONGS H2320: Abbreviations
I. חֹ֫דֶשׁ 282 noun masculineGenesis 7:11 (feminine MT Genesis 38:24 but masculine Sam Di) (newness), new moon, month (on formation compare LgBN 144; on usage, names, etc., Muss-ArnJBL 1892, 72 ff., 160 ff.) — ח׳ absolute Genesis 7:11 +; construct (rare) Genesis 29:14 +; suffix חָדְשׁוֺ Numbers 28:14 + 2 times; חָדְשָׁהּ Hosea 2:13; Jeremiah 2:24; plural חֳדָשִׁים Genesis 38:24 +; construct חָדְשֵׁי Exodus 12:2 + 2 times; suffix חֳדָשָׁיו Job 14:5 + 2 times; חָדְשֵׁיכֶם Isaiah 1:14; Numbers 28:11; חָדְשֵׁכֶם Numbers 10:10; —
†1. new moon = day, time, of new moon, as religious festival 1 Samuel 20:5, 18, 24, 27, 34 (Dr); compare יאֹכְלֵם ח׳ Hosea 5:7 a new moon shall devour them, Hi St VB, but on text see We; usually || שַׁבָּת Amos 8:5; 2 Kings 4:23; Isaiah 1:13 (+ קְרֹא מִקְרָא), מִדֵּי חֹדֶשׁ בְּחָדְשׁוֺ Isaiah 66:23, Ezekiel 46:1, 6 (both יוֺם הַח׳), 1 Chronicles 23:31; 2 Chronicles 2:3; 2 Chronicles 8:13; 31:3; Nehemiah 10:34 (all + מוֺעֵד), Hosea 2:13; Ezekiel 45:17 (both + חג, מועד); || מוֺעֵד alone Isaiah 1:14; Ezekiel 3:5; || יוֺם חַגֵּנוּ Psalm 81:4; (compare ראֹשׁ הַח׳ Numbers 10:10; Numbers 28:11; on religious observance of new moon compare DiLv p. 578 f BenzArchäol. § 69); as time of augury in Babylon (astrological prognostication) Isaiah 47:13.
2. month (as beginning with new moon, lunar month; compare BenzArchäol. § 30, but then, without reference to day of beginning);
†a. as measure of time during which Genesis 38:24 (J), Numbers 11:20, 21 (JE), Numbers 9:22 (P), Judges 11:37, 38, 39; Judges 20:47; 1 Samuel 6:1; 1 Samuel 27:7; 2 Samuel 2:11; 2 Samuel 5:5; 2 Samuel 6:11; 2 Samuel 24:8, 13 = 1 Chronicles 21:12; Amos 4:7; 1 Kings 4:7; 1 Kings 5:7; 1 Kings 5:28 (3 times in verse); 1 Kings 11:16; 2 Kings 15:8; 2 Kings 23:31; 2 Kings 24:8; Ezekiel 39:12, 14; 1 Chronicles 3:4; 1 Chronicles 13:14; 2 Chronicles 36:2, 9; Esther 2:12 (3 times in verse). In 1 Samuel 10:27b read probably כְּמֵחֹדֶשׁ for MT כמחרישׁ, and join to 1 Samuel 11:1, so Greek Version of the LXX We Dr (compare Genesis 38:24); in combinations, יָמִים ח׳ a month (of) time (compare יֶרַח ימים Deuteronomy 21:1; 2 Kings 15:13) Genesis 29:14 (J), Numbers 11:20, 26 (JE), ימים ארבעה ח׳ Judges 19:2; of age מִסְפַּר־ח׳ number of his months =length of his life Job 14:5; Job 21:21; compare especially בֶּןחֿ׳ Leviticus 27:6; Numbers 3:15, 22, 28, 34, 39, 40, 43; Numbers 18:16; Numbers 26:22 (all P). †
b. calendar months,
† (1) with names הָאָבִיב ח׳ Exodus 13:4; Exodus 23:15; Exodus 34:18 (twice in verse) (all J E; = 1st month Exodus 12:2 P), Deuteronomy 16:11; זִו ח׳ 1 Kings 6:1 (= 2nd mo. ib.; = יֶרַח זִו 1 Kings 6:37); compare 1 Kings 8:2 (הַשְּׁבִיעִי הַח׳ = יֶרַךְ הָאֵתָנִים), 1 Kings 6:38 (הַשְּׁמִינִי הַח׳ = יֶרַח בּוּל); in the post-exilic books occur Babylonian names (see the several words): — נִיסָן ח׳ Nehemiah 2:1; Esther 3:7 (= 1st mo. Esther 3:7); סִיוָן ח׳ Esther 8:9 = 3rd mo.; כִּסְלֵו ח׳ Zechariah 7:1; Nehemiah 1:1 (= 9th mo. Zechariah 7:1); טֵבֵ֑ת ח׳ Esther 2:16 = 10th mo.; שְׁבָט ח׳ Zechariah 1:7 = 11th mo.; אֲדָר ח׳ Esther 3:7, 13; Esther 8:12; Esther 9:1 in all = 12th mo., Esther 9:15, 17, 19, 21; (compare also אֱלוּל Nehemiah 6:15, without ח׳ or יֶרַךְ; this was 6th mo.; see further SchrCOT Nehemiah 1:1 Benzl.c.). †
(2) merely numbered (chiefly P and late) e.g. הַשֵּׁנִי בַּח׳ Genesis 7:11, compare Genesis 8:4, 5, 14; Leviticus 16:29; Numbers 1:1, 18 (all P) + often P; Deuteronomy 1:3 (P), 1 Kings 12:32; 1 Kings 12:33; 1 Kings 25:1; 1 Kings 25:3; 1 Kings 25:8; 1 Kings 25:25; 1 Kings 25:27; Jeremiah 1:3 + 11 times Jeremiah; Ezekiel 24:1; Ezekiel 32:1; Haggai 1:1, 15; Zechariah 1:1; Zechariah 7:1, 13; 1 Chronicles 12:15, compare entire list 1 Chronicles 27:2-15; 2 Chronicles 3:2 + 12 times 2 Chronicles; Ezra 3:1 + 10 times Ezra; Nehemiah 7:72; Nehemiah 8:2, 14; Esther 3:12; note especially הַזֶּה לָכֶם ראֹשׁ חָדָשִׁ֑ים רִאשׁוֺן הוּא לָכֶם הַח׳ Exodus 12:2 (P), as implying that the 1st mo. was formerly not in the spring; observe also usage of omitting ח׳, e.g. בָּרִאשׁוֺן = הָר׳ בַּח׳ Genesis 8:13, compare Genesis 8:5; so commonly in Ezekiel: — Ezekiel 1:1; Ezekiel 8:1; Ezekiel 20:1; Ezekiel 29:1, 17; Ezekiel 30:20; Ezekiel 31:1; Ezekiel 33:21; Ezekiel 45:18, 21, 25 + Ezekiel 26:1; Ezekiel 32:17; Ezekiel 45:20 Co; (ח׳ sometimes expressed, see Ezekiel 24:1; Ezekiel 32:1 above; on like usage with יום see יום).
(3) special phrases and usages are: — † עֹלַת חֹדֶשׁ בְּחָדְשׁוֺ לְחָדְשֵׁי שָׁנָה Numbers 28:14 (P; compare יום, and Isaiah 66:23 above 1); מִיּוֺם לְיוֺם וּמֵחֹדֶשׁ לְחֹדֶשׁ Esther 3:7 from day to day and from month to month; חָדְשָׁהּ Jeremiah 2:24 of wild she-ass's mating time.†
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

7:11; 7:11; 7:11; 8:4; 8:5; 8:5; 8:13; 8:14; 29:14; 29:14; 38:24; 38:24; 38:24; 38:24

Exodus

12:2; 12:2; 12:2; 13:4; 23:15; 34:18

Leviticus

16:29; 27:6

Numbers

1:1; 1:18; 3:15; 3:22; 3:28; 3:34; 3:39; 3:40; 3:43; 9:22; 10:10; 10:10; 11:20; 11:20; 11:21; 11:26; 18:16; 26:22; 28:11; 28:11; 28:14; 28:14

Deuteronomy

1:3; 16:11; 21:1

Judges

11:37; 11:38; 11:39; 19:2; 20:47

1 Samuel

6:1; 10:27; 11:1; 20:5; 20:18; 20:24; 20:27; 20:34; 27:7

2 Samuel

2:11; 5:5; 6:11; 24:8; 24:13

1 Kings

4:7; 5:7; 6:1; 6:37; 6:38; 8:2; 11:16; 12:32; 12:33

2 Kings

4:23; 15:8; 15:13; 23:31; 24:8

1 Chronicles

3:4; 12:15; 13:14; 21:12; 23:31; 27:2; 27:3; 27:4; 27:5; 27:6; 27:7; 27:8; 27:9; 27:10; 27:11; 27:12; 27:13; 27:14; 27:15

2 Chronicles

2:3; 3:2; 8:13; 31:3; 36:2; 36:9

Ezra

3:1

Nehemiah

1:1; 1:1; 2:1; 6:15; 7:72; 8:2; 8:14; 10:34

Esther

2:12; 2:16; 3:7; 3:7; 3:7; 3:7; 3:12; 3:13; 8:9; 8:12; 9:1; 9:15; 9:17; 9:19; 9:21

Job

14:5; 14:5; 21:21

Psalms

81:4

Isaiah

1:13; 1:14; 1:14; 47:13; 66:23; 66:23

Jeremiah

1:3; 2:24; 2:24

Ezekiel

1:1; 3:5; 8:1; 20:1; 24:1; 24:1; 26:1; 29:1; 29:17; 30:20; 31:1; 32:1; 32:1; 32:17; 33:21; 39:12; 39:14; 45:17; 45:18; 45:20; 45:21; 45:25; 46:1; 46:6

Hosea

2:13; 2:13; 5:7

Amos

4:7; 8:5

Haggai

1:1; 1:15

Zechariah

1:1; 1:7; 7:1; 7:1; 7:1; 7:13

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2320 matches the Hebrew חֹדֶשׁ (ḥōḏeš),
which occurs 283 times in 224 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 5 (Num 26:62–2Ki 25:27)

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:62 - And those who were numbered of them were 23,000, every male from a month H2320 old and upward, for they were not numbered among the sons of Israel since no inheritance was given to them among the sons of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:11 -

‘Then at the beginning of each of your months H2320 you shall bring near a burnt offering to Yahweh: two bulls from the herd and one ram, seven male lambs one year old without blemish;

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:14 - ‘And their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull and a third of a hin for the ram and a fourth of a hin for a lamb; this is the burnt offering of each month H2320 throughout the months H2320 of the year.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:16 -

‘Then on the fourteenth day of the first month H2320 shall be the Passover of Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:17 - ‘And on the fifteenth day of this month H2320 shall be a feast; unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:1 -

‘Now in the seventh month H2320, on the first day of the month H2320, you shall also have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work. It will be to you a day for blowing trumpets.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:6 - besides the burnt offering of the new H2320 moon H2320 and its grain offering, and the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offerings, according to their legal judgment, for a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:7 -

‘Then on the tenth day of this seventh month H2320 you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall humble yourselves; you shall not do any work.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:12 -

‘Then on the fifteenth day of the seventh month H2320 you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work, and you shall celebrate a feast to Yahweh for seven days.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:3 -

They journeyed from Rameses in the first month H2320, on the fifteenth day of the first month H2320; on the [fn]next day after the Passover the sons of Israel started out [fn]with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:38 -

Then Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the [fn]command of Yahweh, and he died there in the fortieth year after the sons of Israel had come from the land of Egypt, on the first day in the fifth month H2320.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:3 - Now it happened, in the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month H2320, Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that [fn]Yahweh had commanded him to give to them,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:1 -

“Keep the month H2320 of Abib and [fn]celebrate the Passover to Yahweh your God, for in the month H2320 of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:19 -

Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth of the first month H2320 and camped at Gilgal on the eastern edge of Jericho.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:10 -

Then the sons of Israel camped at Gilgal and celebrated the Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month H2320 on the desert plains of Jericho.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:37 - Then she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me; let me alone two months H2320, that I may [fn]go to the mountains and weep because of my virginity, I and my companions.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:38 - Then he said, “Go.” So he sent her away for two months H2320; and she went with her companions and wept on the mountains because of her virginity.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:39 - And it happened at the end of two months H2320 that she returned to her father, and he did to her according to the vow which he had made; and she did not know a man. Thus it became a [fn]custom in Israel,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:2 - But his concubine played the harlot against him, and she went away from him to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah and was there for a period of four months H2320.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:47 - But 600 men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and they remained at the rock of Rimmon four months H2320.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:1 -

Now the ark of Yahweh had been in the [fn]fields of the Philistines seven months H2320.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:5 - So David said to Jonathan, “Behold, tomorrow is the new H2320 moon H2320, and I ought to sit down to eat with the king. But let me go, that I may hide myself in the field until the third evening.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:18 -

Then Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the new H2320 moon H2320, and you will be missed because your seat will be missing.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:24 -

So David hid in the field; and when the new H2320 moon H2320 came, the king sat down to eat food.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:27 - Now it happened the next day, the second day of the new H2320 moon H2320, that David’s place was missing; so Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why has the son of Jesse not come to the meal, either yesterday or today?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:34 - Then Jonathan arose from the table in burning anger and did not eat food on the second day of the new H2320 moon H2320, for he was grieved over David because his father had dishonored him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:7 - And the number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months H2320.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:11 - And the [fn]time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months H2320.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:5 - At Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months H2320, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:11 - Thus the ark of Yahweh remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months H2320, and Yahweh blessed Obed-edom and all his household.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:8 - So they had gone about through the whole land, and they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months H2320 and twenty days.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:13 - So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months H2320 before your adversaries while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now, know and see what word I should return to Him who sent me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:7 -

Now Solomon had twelve deputies over all Israel, who sustained the king and his household; each man had to sustain them for a month H2320 in the year.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:27 - And these deputies sustained King Solomon and all who came to King Solomon’s table, each in his month H2320; they left nothing lacking.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:14 - And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month H2320 in [fn]shifts; they were in Lebanon a month H2320 and two months H2320 at home. And Adoniram was over the forced laborers.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:1 -

Now it happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month H2320 of Ziv which is the second month H2320, that he [fn]began to build the house of Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:38 - Now in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month H2320, the house was completed throughout all its parts and according to all its [fn]plans. So he built it in seven years.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:2 - And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to King Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month H2320.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:16 - (for Joab and all Israel stayed there six months H2320, until he had cut off every male in Edom),
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:32 - And Jeroboam made a feast in the eighth month H2320 on the fifteenth day of the month H2320, like the feast which is in Judah, and he [fn]went up to the altar; thus he did in Bethel, to sacrifice to the calves which he had made. And he had the priests of the high places, which he had made, stand in Bethel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:33 - Then he [fn]went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month H2320, even in the month H2320 which he had [fn]devised [fn]in his own heart; and he made a feast for the sons of Israel and [fn]went up to the altar to burn [fn]incense.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:23 - And he said, “Why will you go to him today? It is neither new H2320 moon H2320 nor sabbath.” And she said, “It is well.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:8 -

In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam became king over Israel in Samaria for six months H2320.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:31 -

Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months H2320 in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:8 -

Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months H2320 in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:1 -

Now in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month H2320, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his military force, against Jerusalem, and he camped against it and built a siege wall all around [fn]it.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:3 - On the ninth day of the fourth month H2320 the famine was so strong in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:8 -

Now on the seventh day of the fifth month H2320, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:25 -

But it happened in the seventh month H2320, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal seed, came [fn]with ten men and struck Gedaliah down so that he died, along with the Jews and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:27 -

Now it happened in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month H2320, on the twenty-seventh day of the month H2320, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison;


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