chor · noble

What it means

chor (חֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “noble”.

A free person of rank in a city, one of those who had a say in its affairs together with the elders.

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. An important person in the city.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×2
• Nehemiah×7
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×2

• 1 Kings 21:8

  She wrote letters in the name of Ahab, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth.

• 1 Kings 21:11

  The men of his city, the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, as it was written in the letters that she had sent to them.

• Nehemiah 2:16

  And the officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing; and to the Jews and to the priests and to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of those doing the work until then I had not told it.

• Nehemiah 4:14

  I looked, and rose, and said to the nobles, to the officials, and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid before them. Remember Adonai, the great and fearsome, and fight for your brothers, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your houses.”

• Nehemiah 4:19

  And I said to the nobles, to the officials, and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and extensive, and we are separated on the wall, far each from his brother.

• Nehemiah 5:7

  My heart deliberated within me, and I contended with the nobles and with the officials and said to them, “You are lending at interest, each to his brother.” And I convened against them a great assembly,

• Nehemiah 6:17

  Also in those days the nobles of Judah were multiplying their letters going to Tobiah, and those of Tobiah were coming to them.

• Nehemiah 7:5

  Then my Elohim put it into my heart, and I gathered the nobles, the officials, and the people to be registered by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written in it:

• Nehemiah 13:17

  So I contended with the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the day of the Sabbath?

• Ecclesiastes 10:17

  Happy are you, land, when your king is a son of nobles, and your princes eat at the right time, with strength and not with drunkenness!

• Isaiah 34:12

  Its nobles, and there is no kingdom there that they will proclaim, and all its princes will be nothing.

• Jeremiah 27:20

  which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he carried into exile Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;

• Jeremiah 39:6

  And the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah at Riblah before his eyes; and all the nobles of Judah the king of Babylon slaughtered.