chof · shore, coast

What it means

chof (חוֹף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “shore, coast”.

Seashore.

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 strip of land by the sea, where ships come in.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• shore ×4
• coast ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×1
• Judges×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Genesis 49:13

  Zebulun will dwell at the shore of the seas; he will be a shore for ships, and his border will be toward Sidon.

• Deuteronomy 1:7

  Turn, set out, and go to the hill country of the Amorite and to all its neighbors, in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the Shephelah, in the Negev, and on the coast of the sea, the land of the Canaanite, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

• Joshua 9:1

  And it came about, when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, in the Shephelah, and on all the coast of the Great Sea opposite Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it,

• Judges 5:17

  Gilead dwelt beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why did he reside as an alien by the ships? Asher sat at the shore of the seas, and by his inlets he dwelt.

• Jeremiah 47:7

  How can you be quiet, when YHWH has given it orders? Against Ashkelon and against the shore of the sea, there he has appointed it.

• Ezekiel 25:16

  therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, I am stretching out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and make perish the remnant of the coast of the sea.

And 1 more times.