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Lexicon :: Strong's H2691 - ḥāṣēr

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חָצֵר
Transliteration
ḥāṣēr
Pronunciation
khaw-tsare'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From חָצַר (H2690) in its original sense
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 722a,723a

Strong’s Definitions

חָצֵר châtsêr, khaw-tsare'; (masculine and feminine); from H2690 in its original sense; a yard (as inclosed by a fence); also a hamlet (as similarly surrounded with walls):—court, tower, village.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 189x

The KJV translates Strong's H2691 in the following manner: court (141x), villages (47x), towns (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 189x
The KJV translates Strong's H2691 in the following manner: court (141x), villages (47x), towns (1x).

  1. court, enclosure

    1. enclosures

    2. court

  2. settled abode, settlement, village, town

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָצֵר châtsêr, khaw-tsare'; (masculine and feminine); from H2690 in its original sense; a yard (as inclosed by a fence); also a hamlet (as similarly surrounded with walls):—court, tower, village.
STRONGS H2691: Abbreviations
I. חָצֵר 145 noun masculine Ezekiel 40:23 and (oftener) feminine 1 Kings 6:36 enclosure, court — absolute ח׳ 1 Kings 7:8 +, חָצֵרָה Jeremiah 36:20; construct חֲצַר Exodus 27:9 +; suffix חֲצֵרוֺ 2 Samuel 17:18; חֲצֵרוֺת Exodus 8:9 + 4 times; construct חַצְרֵי Nehemiah 13:7, הַצְרוֺת 2 Kings 21:5 + 10 times; suffix חֲצֵרָ֑י Isaiah 1:12; Zechariah 3:7; חֲצֵרֶיךָ Psalm 65:5; Psalm 84:11; חֲצֵרוֺתָ֑י 1 Chronicles 28:6; חֲצֵרֹתָיו Psalm 100:4, לְחַצְרוֺתָ֑יו Psalm 96:8, וּבְחַצְרֹתֵיהֶם Nehemiah 8:16; —
1. enclosures (in Egypt), perhaps court-yards, or cattle-yards, distinct from houses and from fields Exodus 8:9 (J).
2. court of private house 2 Samuel 17:18 (containing well), compare Nehemiah 8:16; of a palace, חָצֵר הָאַחֶרֶת 1 Kings 7:8 the other court, immediately surrounding palace, so called in distinct. from הַגְּדוֺלָה (הֶ)ח׳ 1 Kings 7:9; 1 Kings 7:12 the great court, including הא׳ ח׳ and הַמְּנִימִית הֶח׳ of temple (see 3b) in one great enclosure (see StaSalomos Bauten, ZAW 1883. 152 f.); 2 Kings 20:4 (Qr Vrss The Kmp Klo and others; Kt Ke and others הָעִיר), Jeremiah 36:20; Esther 1:5; Esther 2:11; Esther 4:11; Esther 5:1, 2; Esther 6:4 (twice in verse); Esther 6:5; מַטָּרָה ח׳ court of guard, place of (honourable) confinement Jeremiah 32:2 (in king's house), Jeremiah 32:8; Jeremiah 32:12; Jeremiah 33:1; Jeremiah 37:21 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 38:6, 13, 28; Jeremiah 39:14, 15. Especially
3. a. court of tabernacle חֲצַר הַמִּשְׁכָּן Exodus 27:9, compare Exodus 27:9; Exodus 27:12; Exodus 27:13 + 24 times Exodus (all P; שַׁעַר הֶח׳ gate of the court Exodus 35:17; Exodus 38:15, 18, 31; Exodus 39:40; Exodus 40:8, 33); Leviticus 6:9; Leviticus 6:19; Numbers 3:26 (twice in verse) (פֶּתַח הֶח׳), Numbers 3:37; Numbers 4:26 (twice in verse) (הֶח׳ שַׁעַר פֶּתַח), Numbers 4:32; courts of house of י׳ 1 Chronicles 23:28.
b. court(s) of Solomon's temple, inner with הַפְּנִימִית הֶח׳ 1 Kings 6:36; 1 Kings 7:12 (but on text see Stal.c.) Ezekiel 8:16; Ezekiel 10:3 compare Ezekiel 10:4;＝upper with הָעֶלְיוֺן הֶח׳ Jeremiah 36:10 (see Gf), and הַכֹּהֲנִים ח׳ 2 Chronicles 4:9 (where also הָעֲזָרָה הַגְּדוֺלָה, as often Ezek., also דְּלָתוֺת לָעֲזָרָה); outer court הֶח׳ הַחִיצֹנָה Ezekiel 10:5＝הַחֲדָשָׁה הֶח׳ 2 Chronicles 20:5; see further 1 Kings 8:64 2 Chronicles 7:7; 24:21; 29:16; Jeremiah 19:14; Jeremiah 26:2; Ezekiel 8:7; two courts 2 Kings 21:5 2 Chronicles 33:5; 2 Kings 23:12; courts Ezekiel 9:7; 1 Chronicles 28:12; 2 Chronicles 23:5; Nehemiah 8:1, 6; Nehemiah 13:7; often in poetry, courts of י׳ Isaiah 1:12; Isaiah 62:9 (קדשׁי ח׳), Zechariah 3:7; Psalm 65:5; Psalm 84:3; Psalm 84:11; Psalm 96:8; Psalm 100:4; Psalm 116:19; Psalm 135:2
c. courts of Ezekiel's temple Ezekiel 40:14 + 38 times Ezekiel 40-46 (of these read הַשַּׁעַר for החצר Ezekiel 40:19, 32 with Greek Version of the LXX Hi Co; and החיצון for החצר Ezekiel 41:15 with Greek Version of the LXX Ew Co). **Ezekiel 42:6 הַחִיצֹנוֺת for הַחֲצֵרוֺת.

II. [חָצֵר] 46 noun masculineNehemiah 11:25 settled abode, settlement, village (Lagl.c.) — always plural, absolute חֲצֵרִים Joshua 19:8 + 5 times; construct חַצְרֵי 1 Chronicles 9:16; Nehemiah 12:28; suffix חֲצֵרֶיהָ Joshua 21:12 + 4 times; חַצְרֵיהֶם 1 Chronicles 4:33 + 6 times; חַצְרֵיהֶן Joshua 13:23 + 24 times Joshua; —
a. settlements of Ishmaelites Genesis 25:16 (P; || טִירוֺת circles of tents); of עַוִּים [H2699 Deuteronomy 2:23]; of Kedar Isaiah 42:11 (|| עָרִים); בָּתֵּי הַחֲצֵרִים אֲשֶׁר אֵיןלָֿהֶם חֹמָה סָבִיב Leviticus 25:31 (H), houses of the villages which have no wall about them; מַאֲרַב חֲצֵרִים Psalm 10:8 lurking-place(s) of villages (i.e. where oppressor, as a wild beast, watches his opportunity to attack the defenceless). Usually...
b. as dependencies of cities Joshua 15:46, with בְּנֹתֶיהָ (see above בַּת 4.) Joshua 15:45, 47 (twice in verse) (all J E ?); אֲשֶׁר סְבִיבוֺת הֶעָרִים וְכָלהַֿח׳ Joshua 19:8 (P), also Joshua 21:12 (P),＝1 Chronicles 6:41; Nehemiah 12:29; also Joshua 13:23, 28; Joshua 15:32 + 23 times Joshua (all P), Nehemiah 11:25, 30 (|| בָּנוֺת Nehemiah 11:25; Nehemiah 11:27 etc.), Nehemiah 12:28.
c. villages, not contrasted with cities (compare Isaiah 42:11 above) 1 Chronicles 9:16, 22, 25 (all of Levites).
d. ח׳ apparently including all settlements outside of Jerusalem הַח׳ בִּשְׂדֹתָם Nehemiah 11:25. — ח׳ in proper name, of a location see below (and see Bla on Joshua 15:20-32).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

25:16

Exodus

8:9; 8:9; 27:9; 27:9; 27:9; 27:12; 27:13; 35:17; 38:15; 38:18; 38:31; 39:40; 40:8; 40:33

Leviticus

6:9; 6:19; 25:31

Numbers

3:26; 3:37; 4:26; 4:32

Joshua

13:23; 13:23; 13:28; 15:32; 15:45; 15:46; 15:47; 19:8; 19:8; 21:12; 21:12

2 Samuel

17:18; 17:18

1 Kings

6:36; 6:36; 7:8; 7:8; 7:9; 7:12; 7:12; 8:64

2 Kings

20:4; 21:5; 21:5; 23:12

1 Chronicles

4:33; 6:41; 9:16; 9:16; 9:22; 9:25; 23:28; 28:6; 28:12

2 Chronicles

4:9; 7:7; 20:5; 23:5; 24:21; 29:16; 33:5

Nehemiah

8:1; 8:6; 8:16; 8:16; 11:25; 11:25; 11:25; 11:25; 11:27; 11:30; 12:28; 12:28; 12:29; 13:7; 13:7

Esther

1:5; 2:11; 4:11; 5:1; 5:2; 6:4; 6:5

Psalms

10:8; 65:5; 65:5; 84:3; 84:11; 84:11; 96:8; 96:8; 100:4; 100:4; 116:19; 135:2

Isaiah

1:12; 1:12; 42:11; 42:11; 62:9

Jeremiah

19:14; 26:2; 32:2; 32:8; 32:12; 33:1; 36:10; 36:20; 36:20; 37:21; 38:6; 38:13; 38:28; 39:14; 39:15

Ezekiel

8:7; 8:16; 9:7; 10:3; 10:4; 10:5; 40:14; 40:19; 40:23; 40:32; 41:15; 42:6

Zechariah

3:7; 3:7

H2691

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Strong's Number H2691 matches the Hebrew חָצֵר (ḥāṣēr),
which occurs 190 times in 163 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 4 (Jos 19:16–Psa 65:4)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:16 - This was the inheritance of the sons of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages H2691.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:22 - And the border reached to Tabor and Shahazumah and Beth-shemesh, and [fn]their border ended at the Jordan; sixteen cities with their villages H2691.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:23 - This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages H2691.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:30 - Included also were Ummah and Aphek and Rehob; twenty-two cities with their villages H2691.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:31 - This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages H2691.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:38 - and Yiron and Migdal-el, Horem and Beth-anath and Beth-shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages H2691.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:39 - This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali according to their families, the cities with their villages H2691.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:48 - This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages H2691.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:12 - But the fields of the city and its villages H2691 they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:18 - But a boy did see them and informed Absalom; so the two of them went quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his courtyard H2691, and they went down [fn]into it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:36 - And he built the inner court H2691 with three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams.

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Now his house where he was to live, the other court H2691 inward from the hall, was of the same workmanship. He also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom Solomon had married.

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All these were of precious stones, of stone cut according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside; even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court H2691.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:12 - So the great court H2691 all around had three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams even as the inner court H2691 of the house of Yahweh, and the porch of the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:64 - On the same day the king set apart as holy the middle of the court H2691 that was before the house of Yahweh, because there he [fn]offered the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat of the peace offerings; for the bronze altar that was before Yahweh was too small to hold the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat of the peace offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:4 - Now it happened that Isaiah had not gone out of the middle court H2691, and the word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:5 - Indeed, he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts H2691 of the house of Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12 - Also, the altars which were on the roof, the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts H2691 of the house of Yahweh, the king tore down; and he [fn]crushed them there and threw their dust into the brook Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 4:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:32 - Their villages H2691 were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 4:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:33 - and all their villages H2691 that were all around these cities as far as [fn]Baal. These were their settlements, and they have their genealogy.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 6:56

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:56 - but the fields of the city and its villages H2691, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

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and [fn]Obadiah the son of [fn]Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages H2691 of the Netophathites.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:22 - All these who were chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds were 212. These were recorded by genealogy in their villages H2691, whom David and Samuel the seer established in their office of trust.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:25 - And their relatives in their villages H2691 were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with [fn]them;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:28 - For their station is to be on hand for the sons of Aaron with the service of the house of Yahweh, in the courts H2691 and in the chambers and in the cleansing of all holy things, even the work of the service of the house of God,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:6 - “And He said to me, ‘Your son Solomon is the one who shall build My house and My courts H2691; for I have chosen him to be a son to Me, and I will be a father to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:12 - and the pattern of all that he had in [fn]mind, for the courts H2691 of the house of Yahweh, and for all the surrounding chambers, for the treasuries of the house of God, and for the treasuries of the holy things;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:9 - Then he made the court H2691 of the priests and the great court and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with bronze.

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Then Solomon set apart as holy the middle of the court H2691 that was before the house of Yahweh, because there he offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings; for the bronze altar which Solomon had made was not able to hold the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:5 -

Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of Yahweh before the new court H2691,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:5 - and one-third shall be at the king’s house, and a third at the Gate of the Foundation; and all the people shall be in the courts H2691 of the house of Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:21 - So they conspired against him and at the command of the king they stoned him [fn]to death in the court H2691 of the house of Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:16 - So the priests went in to the inner part of the house of Yahweh to cleanse it, and every unclean thing which they found in the temple of Yahweh they brought out to the court H2691 of the house of Yahweh. Then the Levites received it to bring out to the Kidron [fn]valley, to an outer area.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:5 - Indeed, he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts H2691 of the house of Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:25 - Palal the son of Uzai made repairs in front of the Angle and the tower projecting from the upper house of the king, which is by the court H2691 of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh made repairs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:16 - So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each on his roof, and in their courts H2691 and in the courts H2691 of the house of God, and in the square at the Water Gate and in the square at the Gate of Ephraim.

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Now as for the villages H2691 with their fields,

some of the sons of Judah lived in Kiriath-arba and its [fn]towns, in Dibon and its towns, and in Jekabzeel and its villages H2691,

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Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages H2691, Lachish and its fields, Azekah and its towns. So they encamped from Beersheba as far as the valley of Hinnom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:28 - So the sons of the singers were gathered from the district around Jerusalem and from the villages H2691 of the Netophathites,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:29 - from Beth-gilgal and from their fields in Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built themselves villages H2691 around Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:7 - and I came to Jerusalem and discerned the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, by preparing a chamber for him in the courts H2691 of the house of God.

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And when these days were fulfilled, the king held a feast lasting seven days for all the people who were present at the citadel in Susa, from the greatest to the least, in the court H2691 of the garden of the king’s palace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:11 - And every day Mordecai walked back and forth in front of the court H2691 of the harem to know the well-being of Esther and [fn]how she fared.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:11 - “All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that for any man or woman who comes to the king to the inner court H2691 who is not summoned, he has but one law, that he be put to death, unless the king holds out to him the golden scepter so that he may live. And I have not been summoned to come to the king for these thirty days.”

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Now it happened on the third day, that Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court H2691 of the king’s house in front of the king’s [fn]rooms, and the king was sitting on his royal throne in the [fn]throne room, opposite the entrance to his house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:2 - Now it happened that when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court H2691, she advanced in favor in his eyes; and the king extended to Esther the golden scepter which was in his hand. So Esther came near and [fn]reached out and touched the top of the scepter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:4 - So the king said, “Who is in the court H2691?” Now Haman had entered the outer court H2691 of the king’s house in order to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows which he had set up for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:5 - And the king’s young men said to him, “Behold, Haman is standing in the court H2691.” And the king said, “Let him come in.”

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Ayin

He sits in the [fn]places of the villages H2691 where one lies in wait;

In the hiding places he kills the innocent;

His eyes [fn]stealthily watch for the [fn]unfortunate.

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How blessed is the one whom You choose and bring near to You

That he would dwell in Your courts H2691.

We will be satisfied with the goodness of Your house,

Your holy temple.


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