חוֹמָה
chôwmâh · kho-maw'
a wall of protection
Lexicon
Derivation: feminine active participle of an unused root apparently meaning to join;
a wall of protection
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: wall, walled.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › to fasten and establish › water, chaos, the mighty deep › to reveal, behold
To separate and protect that works to fasten and establish of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חוֹמָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
133 occurrences · 133 OT · 0 NT · 88 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the wall19 · 21%
- upon the wall10 · 11%
- wall9 · 10%
- and the wall7 · 8%
- the walls6 · 7%
- on the wall5 · 6%
- walls4 · 4%
- thy walls4 · 4%
- of the wall2 · 2%
- with walls2 · 2%
- upon thy walls2 · 2%
- from the wall2 · 2%
- that are on the wall2 · 2%
- between the two walls2 · 2%
- to the wall2 · 2%
- in the wall2 · 2%
- were a wall2 · 2%
- unto the wall1 · 1%
- from off the wall1 · 1%
- upon him from the wall1 · 1%
- they were a wall1 · 1%
- that the wall1 · 1%
- which have no wall1 · 1%
- that is in the walled1 · 1%
- in a walled1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.