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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 - They found written in the law how Yahweh had commanded by the hand of Moses that the sons of Israel should live in booths during the feast of the seventh month H2320,
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:1 -

Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month H2320 the sons of Israel gathered with fasting, in sackcloth and with dirt upon them.

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:33 - for the showbread, for the continual grain offering, for the continual burnt offering, the sabbaths, the new H2320 moon H2320, for the appointed times, for the holy things and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and all the work of the house of our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:12 -

Now when it reached the turn of each young lady to go in to King Ahasuerus, after the end of her twelve months H2320 under the regulations for the women—for the days of their cosmetic treatment were fulfilled as follows: six months H2320 with oil of myrrh and six months H2320 with spices and the cosmetics for women

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:16 - So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus to his royal house 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, which is the month H2320 Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, [fn]Pur, that is the lot, was cast before Haman from day to day and from month H2320 to month, [fn]until the twelfth month H2320, that is the month H2320 Adar.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:12 -

Then the king’s scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month H2320, and it was written just as Haman commanded to the king’s satraps, to the governors who were over each province, and to the princes of each people, each province according to its script, each people according to its tongue, being written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king’s signet ring.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:13 - And letters were sent by the hand of couriers to all the king’s provinces to destroy, to kill, and to cause all the Jews to perish, both young and old, little ones and women, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month H2320, which is the month H2320 Adar, and to plunder their spoil.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:9 -

So the king’s scribes were called at that time in the third month H2320 (that is, the month H2320 Sivan), on the twenty-third [fn]day; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, the satraps, the governors, and the princes of the provinces which extended from India to [fn]Ethiopia, 127 provinces, to every province according to its script, and to every people according to their tongue as well as to the Jews according to their script and their tongue.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:12 - on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month H2320 (that 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 [fn]day when the king’s word and law had reached the point for them to be done, on the day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain power over them, it was turned around so that the Jews themselves gained power over those who hated them.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:15 - And the Jews who were in Susa assembled also on the fourteenth day of the month H2320 Adar and killed 300 men in Susa, but they did not send forth their hand for the plunder.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:17 - This was done on the thirteenth day of the month H2320 Adar, and on the fourteenth [fn]day they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:19 - Therefore the Jews of the rural areas, who live in the rural towns, make the fourteenth day of the month H2320 Adar a [fn]holiday for gladness and feasting and sending portions of food to one another.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:21 - to establish among them to celebrate the fourteenth day of the month H2320 Adar, and the fifteenth day [fn]of the same month, annually,
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:22 - because on those days the Jews obtained rest for themselves from their enemies, and it was a month H2320 which was turned around for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a [fn]holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness and sending portions of food to one another and gifts to the poor.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:5 -

“Since his days are determined,

The number of his months H2320 is with You;

And his limits You have [fn]set so that he cannot pass.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:21 -

“For what desire does he have for his household [fn]after him,

When the number of his months H2320 is cut off?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:3 -

Blow the trumpet at the new H2320 moon H2320,

At the full moon, on our feast day.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:13 -

“Bring your worthless offerings no longer,

Incense is an abomination to Me.

New H2320 moon H2320 and sabbath, the calling of convocation

I cannot endure wickedness and the solemn assembly.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:14 -

“My soul hates your new H2320 moon H2320 festivals and your appointed times,

They have become a burden to Me;

I am weary of bearing them.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:13 -

“You are wearied with your many counsels;

Let now the astrologers,

Those who behold visions by the stars,

Those who predict by the new H2320 moons H2320,

Stand up and save you from what will come upon you.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:23 -

“And it shall be from new H2320 moon H2320 to new H2320 moon H2320

And from sabbath to sabbath,

All [fn]mankind will come to worship before Me,” says Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:3 - And it came in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the exile of Jerusalem in the fifth month H2320.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:24 -

A wild donkey accustomed to the wilderness,

That sniffs the wind in her passion.

In the time of her [fn]heat who can turn her away?

All who seek her will not become weary;

In her month H2320 they will find her.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:1 -

Now it happened in the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month H2320, that Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of Yahweh in the sight of the priests and all the people, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:17 -

So Hananiah the prophet died in the same year in the seventh month H2320.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:9 -

Now it happened in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month H2320, that all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem called for a fast before Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:22 - Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month H2320, with a fire burning in the brazier before him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:1 -

[fn]Now when Jerusalem was captured [fn]in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month H2320, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his military force came to Jerusalem and laid siege to it;

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:2 - in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month H2320, in the ninth day of the month H2320, the city was breached.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:1 -

Now it happened in the seventh month H2320, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal seed and one of the chief officers of the king, along with ten men, came to Mizpah to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. And they were eating bread together there in Mizpah.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:4 - Now it happened in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month H2320, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his military force, against Jerusalem, and they camped against it and built a siege wall all around [fn]it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:6 - 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 BoxJer 52:12 -

Now on the tenth day of the fifth month H2320, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who stood before the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:31 -

Now it happened in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month H2320, on the twenty-fifth of the month H2320, that [fn]Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison;

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:1 -

Now it happened in the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month H2320, while I was by the river Chebar among the exiles, that the heavens were opened, and I saw [fn]visions of God.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:2 - (On the fifth of the month H2320 [fn]in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:1 -

Now it happened in the sixth year, on the fifth day of the sixth month H2320, as I was sitting in my house with the elders of Judah sitting before me, that the hand of Lord Yahweh fell on me there.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:1 -

Now it happened in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month H2320, that [fn]some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Yahweh and sat before me.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:1 -

And the word of Yahweh came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month H2320, on the tenth of the month H2320, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:1 -

Now it happened in the eleventh year, on the first of the month H2320, that the word of Yahweh came to me saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:1 -

In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month H2320, the word of Yahweh came to me saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:17 -

Now in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first of the month H2320, the word of Yahweh came to me saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:20 -

In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh of the month H2320, the word of Yahweh came to me saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:1 -

Now it happened in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first of the month H2320, that the word of Yahweh came to me saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:1 -

And it happened in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month H2320, that the word of Yahweh came to me saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:17 -

Now it happened in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth of the month H2320, that the word of Yahweh came to me saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:21 -

Now it happened in the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth of the tenth month H2320, that those who escaped from Jerusalem came to me, saying, “The city has been struck down.”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:12 - “And for seven months H2320 the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.

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