choma · wall

What it means

choma (חוֹמָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “wall”.

City wall.

How to say it

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

1. The great stone wall that surrounded and protected a city.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Wall, a protective city wall.

• The waters as a wall to the right and to the left Exodus 14:22
• The wall of Jericho Joshua 6:5Joshua 6:20
• Rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem Nehemiah 2:17Psalms 51:18
• The Babylonians tear down the walls 2 Kings 25:10
• Being a wall for someone: protection 1 Samuel 25:16Zechariah 2:5

How we translate it

“Wall” 99 times, “walls” 33, “walled” 1. This edition sets חוֹמָה = “wall”.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• wall ×99
• walls ×33
• walled ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×3
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×4
• 1 Samuel×3
• 2 Samuel×7
• 1 Kings×4
• 2 Kings×8
• 2 Chronicles×12
• Nehemiah×32
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×2
• Song of Songs×3
• Isaiah×13
• Jeremiah×13
• Lamentations×4
• Ezekiel×10
• Joel×2
• Amos×4
• Nahum×2
• Zechariah×1

• Exodus 14:22

  The sons of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right and on their left.

• Exodus 14:29

  But the sons of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right and on their left.

• Leviticus 25:29

  And if a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, his redemption shall last until a year from his sale is complete; for a full year shall his redemption last.

• Leviticus 25:30

  But if it is not redeemed before a full year is completed for it, then the house that is in the city that has a wall shall belong in perpetuity to the one who bought it, throughout his generations; it shall not go free in the jubilee.

• Leviticus 25:31

  But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them shall be counted as the field of the land; they shall have redemption, and in the jubilee they shall go free.

• Deuteronomy 3:5

  All these were cities fortified with a high wall, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled towns.

• Deuteronomy 28:52

  And it will besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trust, in all your land; and it will besiege you in all your gates in all your land, which YHWH your Elohim has given you.

• Joshua 2:15

  Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was in the wall of the city wall, and she lived in the city wall.

• Joshua 6:5

  And it shall be, when they make a long blast with the horn of the ram, when you hear the sound of the horn, that all the people shall raise a great acclamation, and the wall of the city will fall in its place, and the people shall go up, each man straight ahead.”

• Joshua 6:20

  So the people raised the acclamation, and they blew the horns. And it came about, when the people heard the sound of the horn, that the people raised a great acclamation, and the wall fell in its place; and the people went up into the city, each man straight ahead, and they took the city.

• 1 Samuel 25:16

  They were a wall around us both by night and by day, all the days we were with them tending the flock.

• 1 Samuel 31:10

  They put his weapons in the house of the Astartes, and his body they fastened to the wall of Beth-shan.

• 1 Samuel 31:12

  all the valiant men arose and went all night and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan; they came to Jabesh and burned them there.

• 2 Samuel 11:20

  then if the king’s wrath rises, and he says to you, ‘Why did you go near to the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?

• 2 Samuel 11:21

  Who struck Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman throw an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go near to the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’”

• 2 Samuel 11:24

  Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall, and some of the servants of the king died; and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.”

• 2 Samuel 18:24

  David was sitting between the two gates. The watchman went to the roof of the gate by the wall, and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and there was a man running alone.

• 2 Samuel 20:15

  They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maacah, and they cast up a siege ramp against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab were destroying, to bring down the wall.

• 2 Samuel 20:21

  The matter is not so; but a man from the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba son of Bichri by name, has lifted his hand against the king, against David. Hand over him alone, and I will go away from the city.” The woman said to Joab, “Look, his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”

• 1 Kings 3:1

  And Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he took the daughter of Pharaoh and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building his house and the house of YHWH and the wall of Jerusalem all around.

• 1 Kings 4:13

  Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead; his were Havvoth-jair of Jair son of Manasseh, which is in Gilead; his was the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with wall and bars of bronze;

• 1 Kings 9:15

  And this is the matter of the forced labor that King Solomon raised to build the house of YHWH and his house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer.

• 1 Kings 20:30

  Those who were left fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty and seven thousand men who were left. And Ben-hadad fled and came into the city, into a room within a room.

• 2 Kings 3:27

  He took his firstborn son, who was to reign in his place, and offered him up as a burnt offering on the wall. And there was great wrath against Israel, and they set out from him and returned to the land.

• 2 Kings 6:26

  And it happened, as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, that a woman cried out to him, saying, “Save me, my lord the king!”

• 2 Kings 6:30

  And it happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes, and he was passing by on the wall, and the people saw, and there was the sackcloth on his flesh underneath.

• 2 Kings 14:13

  And Amaziah king of Judah, son of Joash son of Ahaziah, Joash king of Israel seized at Beth-shemesh; and he came to Jerusalem and made a breach in the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits.

• 2 Kings 18:26

  Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Speak, please, to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak with us in the language of Judah in the ears of the people who are on the wall.”

• 2 Kings 18:27

  The Rabshakeh said to them, “Is it to your master and to you that my master has sent me to speak these words? Is it not to the men who sit on the wall, doomed to eat their excrement and to drink their urine with you?”

• 2 Kings 25:4

  The city was breached, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls that is by the garden of the king, while the Chaldeans were against the city all around; and he went by way of the Arabah.

• 2 Kings 25:10

  And the walls around Jerusalem all the force of the Chaldeans that was with the chief of the guard tore down.

• 2 Chronicles 8:5

  He built Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,

• 2 Chronicles 14:7

  He said to Judah, “Let us build these cities and surround them with wall and towers, doors and bars; the land is still before us, because we have sought YHWH our Elohim; we have sought him, and he has given us rest all around.” So they built and prospered.

• 2 Chronicles 25:23

  And Amaziah king of Judah, son of Joash son of Jehoahaz, Joash king of Israel seized at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem and made a breach in the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits.

• 2 Chronicles 26:6

  He went out and fought against the Philistines, and made a breach in the wall of Gath and in the wall of Jabneh and in the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in Ashdod and among the Philistines.

• 2 Chronicles 27:3

  He built the upper gate of the house of YHWH, and on the wall of the Ophel he built much.

• 2 Chronicles 32:5

  He strengthened himself and built all the wall that was broken down, and raised on it the towers, and outside another wall; and he repaired the Millo in the city of David, and made weapons in abundance and shields.

• 2 Chronicles 32:18

  They called out with a loud voice in the language of Judah to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them and to terrify them, so that they might capture the city.

• 2 Chronicles 33:14

  After this he built an outer wall for the city of David, west of Gihon, in the brook, and to the entrance at the Fish Gate, and he surrounded the Ophel and raised it very high. He put commanders of forces in all the fortified cities of Judah.

• 2 Chronicles 36:19

  They burned the house of Elohim and tore down the wall of Jerusalem; and all its palaces they burned with fire, and all its precious objects they destroyed.

And 93 more times.