אָהַל
ahal · pitch a tent
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H167 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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ahal (אָהַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pitch a tent”.
Camp.
How to say it
a·hal
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To camp from place to place.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- moved his tent ×2
- pitch his tent ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 13:12
Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
- Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tent and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and he built there an altar to YHWH.
- Isaiah 13:20
It will never be inhabited, nor be dwelt in from generation to generation; nor will the Arab pitch his tent there, nor shepherds make their flocks lie down there.