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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 you 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 wickedness is found in him, he will die.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:2 - So she came to Jerusalem with a very large entourage H2428, with camels carrying balsam oil and a very large quantity of gold and precious stones. When she came to Solomon, she spoke to him about everything that was in her heart.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:28 - Now the man Jeroboam was a valiant H2428 warrior, and when Solomon saw that the young man was [fn]industrious, he appointed him over all the [fn]forced labor of the house of Joseph.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:20 - So Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies H2428 against the cities of Israel, and [fn]conquered 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 army 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 men went out from the city, the young men of the leaders of the provinces, and the army H2428 which followed them.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:25 - and [fn]muster an army H2428 like the army H2428 that you have lost, horse for horse and chariot for chariot. Then we will fight against them in the plain, and we will certainly 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 strong H2428 men; please let them go and search for your master, in case the Spirit of the LORD has taken him up and cast him on some mountain or into some valley.” But he said, “You shall not send anyone.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:1 -

Now Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man [fn]in the view of his master, and eminent, because by him the LORD had given victory to Aram. The man was also a valiant H2428 warrior, but afflicted with leprosy.

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

Now when the attendant of the man of God had risen early and gone out, behold, an army H2428 with horses and chariots was circling the city. And his servant said to him, “This is hopeless, my master! [fn]What are we to do?”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:6 - For the Lord had made the army of the Arameans hear a sound of chariots, a sound of horses, that is, the sound of a great army H2428; and they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians against us, to [fn]attack us!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:5 - When he arrived, behold, the commanders of the army H2428 were sitting, and he said, “I have a word for you, commander.” And Jehu said, “[fn]For which one of us?” And he said, “For you, commander.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:15 - And Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were appointed over the army H2428 and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks, and whoever follows her, put to death with the sword!” For the priest said, “She is not to be put to death at the house of the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:20 - Then Menahem collected the money from Israel, from all the [fn]mighty men of wealth H2428, from each man fifty 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 led into exile all the people of Jerusalem and all the commanders and all the valiant H2428 warriors, ten thousand exiles, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None were left except the poorest people of the land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:16 - And all the valiant H2428 men, seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, a thousand, all strong and fit for war, these too 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 the king of Babylon came, he and all his army H2428, against Jerusalem, camped against it, and built a siege wall all around [fn]it.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:5 - But the army H2428 of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army H2428 was scattered from him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:10 - So all the army H2428 of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the bodyguards tore down the walls around Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:23 - When all the captains of the forces H2428, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah, namely, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan the son of Kareah, 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, from the small to the great, and the captains of the forces H2428 set out and came to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:18 -

The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, consisting of valiant H2428 men, men who carried shield and sword and shot with a bow and were skillful in battle, totaled 44,760 who went to war.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:24 - These were the heads of their fathers’ households: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, valiant H2428 mighty men, famous men, 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 valiant H2428 warriors in their generations. Their number in the days of David was 22,600.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:5 - Their relatives among all the families of Issachar were valiant H2428 warriors, registered by genealogy, eighty-seven thousand in all.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:7 - The sons of Bela were five: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri. They were heads of fathers’ households, valiant H2428 warriors, 22,034 registered by genealogy.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:9 - They were registered by genealogy according to their generations, heads of their fathers’ households, 20,200 valiant H2428 warriors.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:11 - All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ households, 17,200 valiant H2428 warriors who were [fn]ready to go out with the army to war.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:40 - All these were the sons of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses, choice, valiant H2428 mighty men, and heads of the leaders. And the number of them registered by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:40 - The sons of Ulam were valiant H2428 mighty men, archers, and they had many sons and grandsons, 150 of them. All these were among the sons of Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:13 - and their relatives, heads of their fathers’ households, 1,760 competent H2428 men for the work of the service of the house of God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:12 - all the valiant H2428 men got up 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 for seven days.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:22 -

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

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:26 -

Now the mighty men of the armies H2428 were Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:8 -

From the Gadites valiant H2428 mighty men went over to David at the stronghold in the wilderness, men trained for war who could handle a large shield and spear, 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 band of raiders, for they were all valiant H2428 mighty men, and were captains in the army.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:25 - From the sons of Simeon, valiant H2428 mighty men of war, 7,100.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:28 - also Zadok, a young valiant H2428 mighty man, and from his father’s house, twenty-two captains.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:30 - From the sons of Ephraim 20,800, valiant H2428 mighty men, famous men 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 valiant H2428 mighty men.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:7 - The sons of Shemaiah were Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, whose brothers, Elihu and Semachiah, were valiant H2428 men.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:8 - All these were of the sons of Obed-edom; they and their sons and relatives were able H2428 men with strength for the service, sixty-two from Obed-edom.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:9 - Meshelemiah had sons and relatives, eighteen valiant H2428 men.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:30 - As for the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his relatives, 1,700 capable H2428 men, [fn]were responsible for the affairs of Israel [fn]west of the Jordan, for all the work of the LORD and the service of the king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:31 - As for the Hebronites, Jerijah the chief [fn](these Hebronites were sought out according to their genealogies and fathers’ households, in the fortieth year of David’s reign, and men of outstanding capability H2428 were found among them at Jazer of Gilead)
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:32 - and his relatives, capable H2428 men, numbered 2,700, heads of fathers’ households. And King David appointed them as 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 -

Now David assembled at Jerusalem all the officials of Israel, the leaders of the tribes, and the commanders of the divisions that served the king, the commanders of thousands, and the commanders of hundreds, and the overseers of all the property and livestock belonging to the king and his sons, with the officials and the mighty men, all the valiant H2428 warriors.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:1 -

Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon, she came to Jerusalem to test Solomon with riddles. She had a very large entourage H2428, with camels carrying balsam oil and a large amount of gold and precious stones; and when she came to Solomon, she spoke with him about everything that was on her heart.


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