chalon · window

What it means

chalon (חַלּוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “window”.

An opening in a 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. An opening in the wall that lets in light, to look or get out through.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• windows ×17
• window ×14

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Joshua×3
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×3
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Proverbs×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×12
• Joel×1
• Zephaniah×1

• Genesis 8:6

  And it happened at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,

• Genesis 26:8

  When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down through the window and saw, and look, Isaac was caressing Rebekah his wife.

• 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 2:18

  Look, when we come into the land, you shall tie this cord of scarlet thread in the window through which you let us down, and you shall gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all the house of your father.

• Joshua 2:21

  She said, “According to your words, so it is.” Then she sent them away, and they went. And she tied the cord of scarlet in the window.

• Judges 5:28

  Through the window she looked out and cried, the mother of Sisera, through the lattice: ‘Why is his chariot slow in coming? Why are the hoofbeats of his chariots delayed?’

• 1 Samuel 19:12

  Michal let David down through the window, and he went and fled and escaped.

• 2 Samuel 6:16

  And as the ark of YHWH was coming into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked down through the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before YHWH; and she despised him in her heart.

• 1 Kings 6:4

  And he made for the house windows with closed frames.

• 2 Kings 9:30

  Jehu came to Jezreel, and Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes with antimony and adorned her head and looked down through the window.

• 2 Kings 9:32

  He lifted his face to the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” And two or three officials looked down at him.

• 2 Kings 13:17

  He said, “Open the window toward the east.” And he opened it. Elisha said, “Shoot.” And he shot. He said, “An arrow of victory of YHWH, and an arrow of victory against Aram! You will strike Aram at Aphek until you have finished it.”

• 1 Chronicles 15:29

  And it happened that as the ark of the covenant of YHWH was coming to the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked down through the window and saw King David leaping and celebrating; and she despised him in her heart.

• Proverbs 7:6

  For at the window of my house, through my lattice, I looked out,

• Song of Songs 2:9

  My beloved is like a gazelle or a fawn. Look, there he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattices.

• Jeremiah 9:21

  For death has come up through our windows; it has entered our palaces, to cut off the child from the street, the young men from the squares.

• Jeremiah 22:14

  who says, “I will build for myself a house of great dimensions and spacious upper rooms, and cuts out for it its windows, paneled with cedar and painted with vermilion.”

• Ezekiel 40:16

  And there were closed windows toward the guardrooms and toward their pilasters inside the gate all around, and likewise for the porticoes; and windows all around, inside; and on each pilaster were palm trees.

• Ezekiel 40:22

  And its windows and its porticoes and its palm trees were according to the measure of the gate that faced toward the east; and by seven steps they went up to it, and its porticoes were in front of them.

• Ezekiel 40:25

  And there were windows in it and in its porticoes all around, like these windows; the length, fifty cubits, and the width, twenty-five cubits.

• Ezekiel 40:29

  And its guardrooms and its pilasters and its porticoes were according to these measures; and there were windows in it and in its porticoes all around; the length, fifty cubits, and the width, twenty-five cubits.

• Ezekiel 40:33

  And its guardrooms and its pilasters and its porticoes were according to these measures; and there were windows in it and in its porticoes all around; the length, fifty cubits, and the width, twenty-five cubits.

• Ezekiel 40:36

  its guardrooms, its pilasters, and its porticoes; and it had windows all around; the length, fifty cubits, and the width, twenty-five cubits.

• Ezekiel 41:16

  the thresholds and the closed windows and the terraces all around for the three of them, opposite the threshold, paneled with wood all around, and from the floor to the windows, and the windows were covered;

• Ezekiel 41:26

  And there were closed windows and palm trees on this side and on that side, on the sides of the portico, and the side chambers of the house, and the canopies.

• Joel 2:9

  On the city they rush, on the wall they run, into the houses they climb, through the windows they enter like the thief.

• Zephaniah 2:14

  And flocks will lie down in her midst, every animal of the nations; both the pelican and the hedgehog will lodge in her capitals; a voice will sing in the window; dryness will be on the threshold; for her cedar work has been laid bare.

And 4 more times.