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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 4 / 5 (Pro 13:22–Eze 29:18)

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:22 -

A good man leaves an inheritance to his [fn]children’s children,

And the wealth H2428 of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:3 -

Do not give your excellence H2428 to women,

Or your ways to that which blots out kings.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:10 -

Aleph

[fn]An excellent H2428 wife, who can find?

For her worth is far above pearls.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:29 -

Resh

“Many daughters have done excellently H2428,

But you have gone above them all.”

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:10 - If the [fn]axe is dull and he does not sharpen its edge, then he must [fn]exert more strength H2428. Wisdom has the advantage of giving success.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:3 - in the day that the watchmen of the house tremble, and valiant H2428 men bend down, the grinding ones stand idle because they are few, and those who look through [fn]windows grow dark;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:22 -

Woe to those who are mighty men in drinking wine

And valiant H2428 men in mixing strong drink,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:4 - for before the boy knows how to cry out ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth H2428 of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:14 -

And my hand reached for the wealth H2428 of the peoples like a nest,

And as one gathers abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth;

And there was not one that flapped its wing or opened its beak or chirped.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:6 -

The [fn]oracle concerning the beasts of the Negev.

Through a land of distress and anguish,

From [fn]where come lioness and lion, viper and flying fiery serpent,

They carry their wealth H2428 on the [fn]backs of young donkeys

And their treasures on camels’ humps,

To a people who cannot profit them;

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:17 -

Who brings forth the chariot and the horse,

The military H2428 force H2428 and the mighty man;

They will lie down together and not rise again;

They have been extinguished and quenched like a wick:

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:5 -

“Then you will see and be radiant,

And your heart will tremble and be large with joy;

Because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you,

The wealth H2428 of the nations will come to you.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:11 -

“Your gates will be open continually;

They will not be closed day or night,

So that men may bring to you the wealth H2428 of the nations,

With their kings led in procession.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:6 -

But you will be called the priests of Yahweh;

You will be spoken of as ministers of our God.

You will eat the wealth H2428 of nations,

And in their glories you will boast.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:13 -

“Your wealth H2428 and your treasures

I will give for plunder without cost,

Even for all your sins

And within all your borders.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:3 -

O mountain of Mine in the countryside,

I will give over your wealth H2428 and all your treasures for plunder,

Your high places for sin throughout your borders.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:2 - Now at that time the military H2428 force H2428 of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the house of the king of Judah,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:1 -

The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his military H2428 force H2428, with all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his [fn]dominion and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and against all its cities, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:7 - when the military H2428 force H2428 of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left, that is, Lachish and Azekah, for they alone remained as fortified cities among the cities of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:21 - ‘And as for Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials, I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life and into the hand of the military H2428 force H2428 of the king of Babylon which has gone away from you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:11 - “But it happened that when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against the land, we said, ‘Come, let us come to Jerusalem before the military H2428 force H2428 of the Chaldeans and before the military H2428 force H2428 of the Arameans.’ So we have inhabited Jerusalem.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:5 - Meanwhile, Pharaoh’s military H2428 force H2428 had come out from Egypt; and the Chaldeans who had been besieging Jerusalem heard the report about them. So they withdrew from Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:7 - “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Thus you are to say to the king of Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: “Behold, the military H2428 force H2428 of Pharaoh which has come out for your assistance is going to return to its own land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:10 - ‘For even if you had struck down the entire military H2428 force H2428 of the Chaldeans who were fighting against you, and there were only wounded men remaining among them, each man in his tent, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:11 -

Now it happened when the military H2428 force H2428 of the Chaldeans had withdrawn from Jerusalem because of the military H2428 force H2428 of Pharaoh,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:3 - “Thus says Yahweh, ‘This city will certainly be given into the hand of the military H2428 force H2428 of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.’”
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, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his military H2428 force H2428 came to Jerusalem and laid siege to it;

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:5 - But the military H2428 force H2428 of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the [fn]plains of Jericho; and they took him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he spoke judgment on him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:7 -

Then all the [fn]commanders of the military H2428 forces H2428 that were in the field, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam over the land and that he had appointed him over the men, women, little ones, and those of the poorest of the land who had not been exiled to Babylon.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:13 -

Now Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the military H2428 forces H2428 that were in the field came to Gedaliah at Mizpah

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:11 -

But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the military H2428 forces H2428 that were with him heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:13 - Now it happened as soon as all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the military H2428 forces H2428 that were with him, they were glad.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:16 - Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the military H2428 forces H2428 that were with him took from Mizpah all the remnant of the people whom he had returned from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, after he had struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, that is, the mighty men who were men of war, the women, the little ones, and the eunuchs, whom he had returned from Gibeon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:1 -

Then all the [fn]commanders of the military H2428 forces H2428, Johanan the son of Kareah, Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people both small and great approached

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:8 - Then he called for Johanan the son of Kareah and all the [fn]commanders of the military H2428 forces H2428 that were with him, and for all the people both small and great,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:4 - So Johanan the son of Kareah and all the [fn]commanders of the military H2428 forces H2428 and all the people did not listen to the voice of Yahweh to stay in the land of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:5 - But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the [fn]commanders of the military H2428 forces H2428 took the entire remnant of Judah, who had returned from all the nations to which they had been banished, in order to sojourn in the land of Judah
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:2 -

To Egypt, concerning the military H2428 force H2428 of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was by the Euphrates River at Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck down in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:22 -

“Its sound moves along like a serpent;

For they move on [fn]like a military H2428 force H2428

And come to her as woodcutters with axes.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:14 -

“How can you say, ‘We are mighty warriors,

And men valiant H2428 for battle’?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:4 - Now it happened in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his military H2428 force H2428, against Jerusalem, and they camped against it and built a siege wall all around [fn]it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:8 - But the military H2428 force H2428 of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the [fn]plains of Jericho, and all his military H2428 force H2428 was scattered from him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:14 - So all the military H2428 force H2428 of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard tore down all the walls around Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:17 - ‘And Pharaoh with his mighty military H2428 force H2428 and great assembly will not [fn]help him in the war, when they cast up ramps and build siege walls to cut off many lives.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:12 - “Also they will make a spoil of your wealth H2428 and a plunder of your merchandise, and pull down your walls and tear down your desirable houses, and [fn]throw your stones and your timbers and your debris into the water.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:10 -

“Persia and Lud and Put were in your military H2428 force H2428, your men of war. They hung shield and helmet in you; they set forth your majesty.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:11 - “The sons of Arvad and your military H2428 force H2428 were on your walls, all around, and the [fn]Gammadim were in your towers. They hung their small shields on your walls all around; they perfected your beauty.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:4 -

“By your wisdom and understanding

You have acquired wealth H2428 for yourself

And have acquired gold and silver for your treasuries.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:5 -

“By your great wisdom, by your trade

You have increased your wealth H2428,

And your heart is lofty because of your wealth H2428

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:18 - “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his military H2428 force H2428 [fn]labor hard against Tyre; every head was made bald, and every shoulder was rubbed bare. But he and his military H2428 force H2428 had no wages from Tyre for the [fn]labor that he had [fn]labored against it.”

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