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Lexicon :: Strong's H2428 - ḥayil

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חַיִל
Transliteration
ḥayil
Pronunciation
khah'-yil
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 624a

Strong’s Definitions

חַיִל chayil, khah'-yil; from H2342; probably a force, whether of men, means or other resources; an army, wealth, virtue, valor, strength:—able, activity, ( ) army, band of men (soldiers), company, (great) forces, goods, host, might, power, riches, strength, strong, substance, train, ( ) valiant(-ly), valour, virtuous(-ly), war, worthy(-ily).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 243x

The KJV translates Strong's H2428 in the following manner: army (56x), man of valour (37x), host (29x), forces (14x), valiant (13x), strength (12x), riches (11x), wealth (10x), power (9x), substance (8x), might (6x), strong (5x), miscellaneous (33x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 243x
The KJV translates Strong's H2428 in the following manner: army (56x), man of valour (37x), host (29x), forces (14x), valiant (13x), strength (12x), riches (11x), wealth (10x), power (9x), substance (8x), might (6x), strong (5x), miscellaneous (33x).
  1. strength, might, efficiency, wealth, army

    1. strength

    2. ability, efficiency

    3. wealth

    4. force, army

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חַיִל chayil, khah'-yil; from H2342; probably a force, whether of men, means or other resources; an army, wealth, virtue, valor, strength:—able, activity, ( ) army, band of men (soldiers), company, (great) forces, goods, host, might, power, riches, strength, strong, substance, train, ( ) valiant(-ly), valour, virtuous(-ly), war, worthy(-ily).
STRONGS H2428: Abbreviations
חַ֫יִל 244 noun masculine 2 Kings 10:2 strength, efficiency, wealth, army; — absolute ח׳ Genesis 47:6 +, חָ֑יִל Psalm 60:14 [Psalm 60:12] +, חָ֑יִל Psalm 60:14 [Psalm 60:12]+, חֵיל Isaiah 36:2; 2 Kings 18:17; construct חֵיל Exodus 14:28 + (on Psalm 10:10 see חלכה); suffix חֵילִי Job 31:25 + 2 times; חֵילְךָ Jeremiah 15:13 +; חֵילוֺ Exodus 14:4 +, etc.; plural חֲיָלִים 1 Chronicles 7:5 + 19 times; suffix חֵילֵיהֶם Isaiah 30:6; —
1. strength, usually physical:
a. seldom alone (chiefly in poetry) 1 Samuel 2:4; Psalm 18:33, 402 Samuel 22:33, 40; also ח'נָּֽברוּ Job 21:7, compare Ecclesiastes 10:10; מֵחַיִל אֶלחָֿ֑יִל Psalm 84:8; בְּכֹחַ ח׳ 2 Chronicles 26:13; of virility Proverbs 31:3; of י׳'s power Psalm 59:12; Psalm 110:3, compare Habakkuk 3:19; strength of horse Psalm 33:17; figurative of product of vine and fig-tree Joel 2:22 (|| פְּרִי).
b. of result or display of strength עשׂה ח׳ achieve mightdo valiantly Numbers 24:18 (JE), 1 Samuel 14:48; Psalm 60:14 [Psalm 60:12]=Psalm 108:14 [Psalm 108:13]; Psalm 118:15, 16.
c. often in phrases גִּבּוֺר(הַ)ח׳, גִּבּוֺרֵי(הַ)ח׳ hero(es) of strength, mighty man (men) of valour Joshua 1:14 (D), Joshua 6:2; Joshua 8:3; Joshua 10:7 (all J E), Judges 6:12; Judges 11:1; 1 Samuel 9:1; 1 Samuel 16:18; 1 Kings 11:28; 2 Kings 5:1; 2 Kings 15:20; 2 Kings 24:14, 16; 1 Chronicles 5:24; 1 Chronicles 7:2, 9; 1 Chronicles 8:40הַגִּבּוֺרִים וכל גבורי ח׳ 1 Chronicles 28:1; also ח׳ ג׳ 2 Chronicles 13:3 (|| מלחמה ג׳); (הַ)חֲיָלִים ג׳ 1 Chronicles 7:5, 7, 11, 40; 1 Chronicles 11:26 (see also גִּבּוֺר); בֶּןֿ(הַ)ח׳, בְּנֵי(הַ)ח׳ Deuteronomy 3:18; Judges 18:2 + (see בֵּן 8); אִישׁ ח׳, אַנְשֵׁי ח׳ Judges 3:29; Judges 20:44; Judges 20:46; 1 Samuel 31:12; 1 Samuel 11:16; 2 Samuel 23:20 (Qr; Kt חי, on phrase בןאֿישׁ חיל compare Dr)=1 Chronicles 11:22 (Kt חיל), 2 Samuel 24:9; Nahum 2:4; Jeremiah 48:15; 1 Chronicles 10:12; Nehemiah 11:6; Psalm 76:6; ironical לִמְסֹךְ שֵׁכָר ח׳ א׳ Isaiah 5:22=(|| גבורים לשׁתות יין); Ecclesiastes 12:3 metaphor of legs.
2. ability, efficiency, often involving moral worth אַנְשֵׁי ח׳ Genesis 47:6 (J), Exodus 18:21, 25 (both E); of a woman אֵשֶׁת ח׳ Proverbs 12:4; Proverbs 31:10; Ruth 3:11; compare 1 Kings 1:42, 52 (opposed to רעה), and especially יִרְאֵי אלהים אַנְשֵׁי אֱמֶת שׂנְאֵי בָּ֑צַע אַנְשֵׁי ח׳ Exodus 18:21(E); עָשָׂה חיל Proverbs 31:29 do worthily, efficiently, perhaps also Ruth 4:11; late (with weakened meaning of גִּבּוֺר) גִּבּוֺרֵי חֵיל מְלֶאכֶת עֲבוֺדַת בֵּית הָאלהים 1 Chronicles 9:13, compare בַּכִּחַ לַעֲבֹדָה אישׁ ח׳ 1 Chronicles 26:8. So also 1 Samuel 10:26 (read בְּנֵי ח׳, see Greek Version of the LXX We Dr, men of worth, opposed to בני בליעל 1 Samuel 10:27) for MT ח׳ force, band.
4. force, army, very often Exodus 14:4, 9, 17, 28 (all P), Exodus 15:4 (song), 1 Samuel 17:20; 2 Samuel 8:9; 2 Kings 6:4, 15; 2 Kings 25:1, 5 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 25:10; 2 Chronicles 13:3 (בְּחַיִל גִּבּוֺרֵי מלחמה), 2 Chron 14:7; 2 Chronicles 16:7; 23:14 +; so usually Jeremiah: Jeremiah 32:2; Jeremiah 34:1 +; frequently Ezekiel: Ezekiel 17:17; Ezekiel 27:10 +; Daniel 11:7, 13, 25 (twice in verse); Daniel 11:26; =a band 1 Samuel 10:26 (MT, but see 2, at the end); of train of Queen of Sheba גדול ח׳ 1 Kings 10:2 2 Chronicles 9:1; חֵיל כָּבֵד Isaiah 36:12 Kings 18:17 a powerful army (on form compare Sta§ 194 c); also (late) חֵיל הַצָּבָא 1 Chronicles 20:1; 2 Chronicles 26:13, חֵיל עָם Esther 8:11; הֲמוֺן חֲיָלִים Daniel 11:10; שַׂרהֿח׳ 2 Samuel 24:2captain of the host, שָׂרֵי הח׳ 2 Samuel 24:4; 2 Samuel 24:4; שָׂרֵי הַחֲיָלִים captains of armies (bands, divisions) 1 Kings 15:20 2 Chronicles 16:4; 2 Kings 25:23; Jeremiah 40:7, 13; Jeremiah 41:11, 13, 16; Jeremiah 42:1, 8; Jeremiah 43:4, 5. החִיל פִּקּוּדֵי Numbers 31:14 (P). — חֵילוּ Ezekiel 32:31 omitted by B Hi Co: for חֵילֵךְ Ezekiel 27:11 read probably a proper name, of a location, compare Da; Co proposes חתלון (compare Ezekiel 47:15; Ezekiel 48:1), HalMÈl. Epigr. 1874, 69 חלךCilicia, see LagM i. 211.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H2429.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

34:29; 47:6; 47:6

Exodus

14:4; 14:4; 14:9; 14:17; 14:28; 14:28; 15:4; 18:21; 18:21; 18:25

Numbers

24:18; 31:9; 31:14

Deuteronomy

3:18; 8:17; 8:18; 33:11

Joshua

1:14; 6:2; 8:3; 10:7

Judges

3:29; 6:12; 11:1; 18:2; 20:44; 20:46

Ruth

3:11; 4:11

1 Samuel

2:4; 9:1; 10:26; 10:26; 10:27; 14:48; 16:18; 17:20; 31:12

2 Samuel

8:9; 22:33; 22:40; 23:20; 24:2; 24:4; 24:4; 24:9

1 Kings

1:42; 1:52; 10:2; 11:28; 15:20

2 Kings

5:1; 6:4; 6:15; 10:2; 15:20; 18:17; 18:17; 24:14; 24:16; 25:1; 25:5; 25:10; 25:23

1 Chronicles

5:24; 7:2; 7:5; 7:5; 7:7; 7:9; 7:11; 7:40; 8:40; 9:13; 10:12; 11:22; 11:26; 20:1; 26:8; 28:1

2 Chronicles

9:1; 13:3; 13:3; 14:7; 16:4; 16:7; 23:14; 26:13; 26:13

Nehemiah

11:6

Esther

8:11

Job

5:5; 15:29; 20:15; 20:18; 21:7; 31:25; 31:25

Psalms

10:10; 18:33; 18:40; 33:17; 49:7; 49:11; 59:12; 60:12; 60:12; 60:12; 62:11; 73:12; 76:6; 84:8; 108:13; 110:3; 118:15; 118:16

Proverbs

12:4; 13:22; 31:3; 31:10; 31:29

Ecclesiastes

10:10; 12:3

Isaiah

5:22; 8:4; 10:14; 30:6; 30:6; 36:1; 36:2; 60:5; 60:11; 61:6

Jeremiah

15:13; 15:13; 17:3; 32:2; 34:1; 40:7; 40:13; 41:11; 41:13; 41:16; 42:1; 42:8; 43:4; 43:5; 48:15

Ezekiel

17:17; 26:12; 27:10; 27:11; 28:4; 28:5; 32:31; 47:15; 48:1

Daniel

11:7; 11:10; 11:13; 11:25; 11:26

Joel

2:22

Micah

4:13

Nahum

2:4

Habakkuk

3:19

Zephaniah

1:13

Zechariah

14:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2428 matches the Hebrew חַיִל (ḥayil),
which occurs 236 times in 221 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 5 (1Ki 1:42–2Ch 9:1)

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:42 - While he was still speaking, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came. Then Adonijah said, “Come in, for you are a valiant H2428 man and bring good news.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:52 - And Solomon said, “If he is a worthy H2428 man, not one of his hairs will fall to the ground; but if evil is found in him, he will die.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:2 - She came to Jerusalem with a very glorious retinue H2428, with camels carrying spices and very much gold and precious stones. And she came to Solomon and spoke to him about all that was in her heart.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:28 - Now the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor H2428. And Solomon saw that the young man was [fn]industrious and appointed him over all the load-bearers of the house of Joseph.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:20 - So Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his military H2428 force H2428 against the cities of Israel, and struck down Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah and all Chinneroth, besides all the land of Naphtali.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:1 -

Now Ben-hadad king of Aram gathered all his military H2428 force H2428, and there were thirty-two kings with him, and horses and chariots. And he went up and besieged Samaria and fought against it.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:19 -

So these went out from the city, the young men of the rulers of the provinces, and the military H2428 force H2428 which followed them.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:25 - and you shall number a military H2428 force H2428 like the military H2428 force H2428 that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot. Then we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they.” And he listened to their voice and did so.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:16 - Then they said to him, “Behold now, there are with your servants fifty excellent H2428 men, please let them go and search for your master, lest the Spirit of Yahweh has taken him up and cast him on some mountain or into some valley.” And he said, “You shall not send.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:1 -

Now Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man [fn]with his master, and [fn]highly respected, because by him Yahweh had given salvation to Aram. The man was also a mighty man of valor H2428, but he was a leper.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:14 - So he sent horses and chariots and a heavy military H2428 force H2428 there, and they came by night and surrounded the city.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:15 -

Then the attendant of the man of God arose early and went out, and behold, a military H2428 force H2428 with horses and chariots was all around the city. And his young man said to him, “Alas, my master! [fn]What shall we do?”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:6 - Now the Lord had caused the camp of the Arameans to hear a sound of chariots and a sound of horses, even the sound of a great military H2428 force H2428, so that they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:5 - Then he came, and behold, the commanders of the military H2428 were sitting, and he said, “I have a word for you, O commander.” And Jehu said, “[fn]For which one of us?” And he said, “For you, O commander.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:15 - And Jehoiada the priest commanded the commanders of hundreds who were appointed over the military H2428 force H2428 and said to them, “Bring her out [fn]between the ranks, and whoever follows her put to death with the sword.” For the priest said, “Let her not be put to death in the house of Yahweh.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:20 - Then Menahem exacted the money from Israel, even from all the mighty men of valor H2428, from each man fifty [fn]shekels of silver to pay the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria returned and did not stay there in the land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:14 - Then he took away into exile all Jerusalem and all the commanders and all the mighty men of valor H2428, 10,000 captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None was left except the poorest people of the land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:16 - Now all the valiant H2428 men, seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, one thousand, all mighty men who could wage war, and these the king of Babylon brought into exile to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:1 -

Now in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his military H2428 force H2428, against Jerusalem, and he camped against it and built a siege wall all around [fn]it.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:5 - But the military H2428 force H2428 of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho and all his military H2428 force H2428 was scattered from him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:10 - So all the military H2428 force H2428 of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard tore down the walls around Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:23 - Then all the commanders of the military H2428 forces H2428, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah governor. So they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, namely, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:26 - Then all the people, both small and great, and the commanders of the military H2428 forces H2428 arose and went to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:18 -

The sons of Reuben and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, consisting of men of valor H2428, men who bore shield and sword and shot with bow and were learned in the ways of battle, were 44,760, who went out for military duty.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:24 - These were the heads of their fathers’ households, even Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor H2428, men of renown, heads of their fathers’ households.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:2 -

The sons of Tola were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Samuel, heads of their fathers’ households. The sons of Tola were mighty men of valor H2428 in their generations; their number in the days of David was 22,600.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:5 - Their [fn]relatives among all the families of Issachar were mighty men of valor H2428, recorded by genealogy, in all 87,000.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:7 -

The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five. They were heads of fathers’ households, mighty men of valor H2428, and were 22,034 recorded by genealogy.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:9 -

They were recorded by genealogy, according to their generations, heads of their fathers’ households, 20,200 mighty men of valor H2428.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:11 -

All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ households, 17,200 mighty men of valor H2428, who went out with the army to war.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:40 -

All these were the sons of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses, choice and mighty men of valor H2428, heads of the princes. And the number of them recorded by genealogy for the army in war was 26,000 men.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:40 -

The sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor H2428, archers, and had many sons and grandsons, 150 of them.

All these were of the sons of Benjamin.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:13 -

and their relatives, heads of their fathers’ households, 1,760 mighty men of valor H2428 for the work of the service of the house of God.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:12 - so all the valiant H2428 men arose and took away the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons and brought them to Jabesh, and they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:22 -

Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant H2428 man of Kabzeel, mighty in deeds, struck down the [fn]two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and struck down a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:26 -

Now the mighty men of the military H2428 forces H2428 were

Asahel the brother of Joab,

Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:8 -

From the Gadites, mighty men of valor H2428 separated themselves to David in the stronghold in the wilderness, men of war who had gone out for military duty, who could [fn]handle large shield and spear, and whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:21 - They helped David against the marauding band, for they were all mighty men of valor H2428, and were commanders in the army.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:25 -

Of the sons of Simeon, mighty men of valor H2428 for military duty, 7,100.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:28 -

also Zadok, a young man mighty of valor H2428, and of his father’s house 22 commanders.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:30 -

Of the sons of Ephraim 20,800, mighty men of valor H2428, men [fn]who had a name in their fathers’ households.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:6 -

Also to his son Shemaiah sons were born who ruled over the house of their father, for they were mighty men of valor H2428.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:7 -

The sons of Shemaiah were Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, whose brothers, Elihu and Semachiah, were men of valor H2428.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:8 -

All these were of the sons of Obed-edom; they and their sons and their [fn]relatives were valiant H2428 men with strength for the service, sixty-two from Obed-edom.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:9 -

Meshelemiah had sons and relatives, eighteen men of valor H2428.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:30 - As for the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his relatives, 1,700 men of valor H2428, were over the administration of Israel across the Jordan to the west, for all the work of Yahweh and the service of the king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:31 - As for the Hebronites, Jerijah the chief [fn](these Hebronites were investigated according to their generations and fathers’ households, in the fortieth year of David’s reign, and mighty men of valor H2428 were found among them at Jazer of Gilead)
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:32 - and his relatives, men of valor H2428, were 2,700 in number, heads of fathers’ households. And King David made them overseers of the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of the Manassites concerning [fn]all the affairs of God and of the king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:1 -

And David assembled at Jerusalem all the commanders of Israel, the commanders of the tribes, and the commanders of the divisions that ministered to the king, and the commanders of thousands, and the commanders of hundreds, and the commanders over all the property and livestock belonging to the king and his sons, with the officials and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor H2428.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:1 -

Now the queen of Sheba heard the report about Solomon. So she came to Jerusalem to test Solomon with riddles. She had a very glorious retinue H2428, with camels carrying spices and a large amount of gold and precious stones. And she came to Solomon and spoke with him about all that was in her heart.


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