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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 4 / 5 (Neh 8:14–Eze 39:12)

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:14 - And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month: H2320
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:1 - Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month H2320 the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:33 - For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, H2320 for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:12 - Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, H2320 according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months H2320 with oil of myrrh, and six months H2320 with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:16 - So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, H2320 which is the month H2320 Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:7 - In the first month, H2320 that is, the month H2320 Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month H2320 to month, H2320 to the twelfth month, that is, the month H2320 Adar.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:12 - Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, H2320 and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:13 - And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, H2320 which is the month H2320 Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:9 - Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, H2320 that is, the month H2320 Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:12 - Upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, H2320 which is the month H2320 Adar.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:1 - Now in the twelfth month, H2320 that is, the month H2320 Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:15 - For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month H2320 Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:17 - On the thirteenth day of the month H2320 Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:19 - Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month H2320 Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:21 - To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month H2320 Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:22 - As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month H2320 which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:5 - Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months H2320 are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:21 - For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months H2320 is cut off in the midst?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:3 - Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, H2320 in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:13 - Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons H2320 and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:14 - Your new moons H2320 and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:13 - Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly H2320 prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:23 - And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon H2320 to another, H2320 and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:3 - It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month. H2320
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:24 - A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month H2320 they shall find her.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:1 - And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, H2320 that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:17 - So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month. H2320
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:9 - And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, H2320 that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:22 - Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: H2320 and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:1 - In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, H2320 came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:2 - And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, H2320 the ninth day of the month, H2320 the city was broken up.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:1 - Now it came to pass in the seventh month, H2320 that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:4 - And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, H2320 in the tenth day of the month, H2320 that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:6 - And in the fourth month, H2320 in the ninth day of the month, H2320 the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:12 - Now in the fifth month, H2320 in the tenth day of the month, H2320 which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:31 - And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, H2320 in the five and twentieth day of the month, H2320 that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:1 - Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, H2320 as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:2 - In the fifth day of the month, H2320 which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:1 - And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, H2320 as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:1 - And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, H2320 that certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the LORD, and sat before me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:1 - Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, H2320 in the tenth day of the month, H2320 the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:1 - And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, H2320 that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:1 - In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, H2320 the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:17 - And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, H2320 the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:20 - And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, H2320 that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:1 - And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, H2320 that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:1 - And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, H2320 in the first day of the month, H2320 that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:17 - It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, H2320 that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:21 - And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, H2320 that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:12 - And seven months H2320 shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.

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