chel · army; rampart

What it means

chel (חֵיל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “army; rampart”.

Troop, army; also the outer wall or rampart that defends a city.

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. A city's outer wall.
2. A body of armed soldiers.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• force ×9
• rampart ×5
• army ×1
• helpless ×1
• host ×1
• troops ×1
• within your wall ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Nehemiah×1
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×2
• Lamentations×1
• Joel×1
• Obadiah×1
• Nahum×1

• 2 Samuel 8:9

  When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the force of Hadadezer,

• 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.

• 1 Kings 21:23

  And also concerning Jezebel YHWH has spoken, saying, ‘The dogs will eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.

• 2 Kings 18:17

  The king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a large force to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem; they went up and came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway of the Launderer’s Field.

• 1 Chronicles 18:9

  When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the force of Hadadezer king of Zobah,

• 1 Chronicles 20:1

  And it happened, at the turn of the year, at the time when the kings go out, that Joab led out the force of the army and destroyed the land of the sons of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed in Jerusalem. And Joab struck Rabbah and tore it down.

• 2 Chronicles 16:7

  At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, “Because you relied on the king of Aram, and did not rely on YHWH your Elohim, therefore the force of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand.

• 2 Chronicles 24:23

  And it happened, at the turn of the year, that the force of Aram came up against him; they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the officials of the people from among the people, and all their spoil they sent to the king of Damascus.

• 2 Chronicles 24:24

  For with a few men the force of Aram came, and YHWH gave into their hand a very great force, because they had abandoned YHWH, Elohim of their fathers. And on Joash they executed judgments.

• 2 Chronicles 26:13

  And under their direction was an army force of three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, who made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.

• Nehemiah 4:2

  And he spoke before his brothers and the troops of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they leave them alone? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubble, when they are burned?”

• Psalms 10:10

  He crouches, he bows down, and the helpless fall before his strong ones.

• Psalms 122:7

  may there be peace within your wall, tranquility within your palaces.

• Isaiah 26:1

  On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; he sets salvation as walls and rampart.

• Isaiah 36:2

  The king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah with a large force; and he stood by the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the Launderer’s Field.

• Lamentations 2:8

  YHWH has planned to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; he has stretched out the line; he has not drawn back his hand from swallowing up; and he has made rampart and wall mourn; together they languish.

• Joel 2:11

  And YHWH utters his voice before his army, for his camp is very great; for mighty is the one who carries out his word; for great is the day of YHWH and very fearsome; and who can endure it?

• Obadiah 1:20

  And the exiles of this host of the sons of Israel will possess what belongs to the Canaanites as far as Zarephath, and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the Negev.

• Nahum 3:8

  Are you better than No-amon, that sat by the channels, with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, and from the sea her wall?