חַוָּה
chava · village, encampment
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2333 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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chava (חַוָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “village, encampment”.
A small group of dwellings.
How to say it
cha·va
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
- Tent settlement; Jair's settlements in Gilead.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- Havvoth-jair ×3
- villages ×1
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Numbers 32:41
Jair son of Manasseh went and took their villages, and he called them Havvoth-jair.
- Joshua 13:30
And their territory was from Mahanaim: all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all Havvoth-jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities;
- 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 Chronicles 2:23
But Geshur and Aram took Havvoth-jair from them, Kenath and its towns, sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.