chor · hole, cave

What it means

chor (חוֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hole, cave”.

A hole, a hollow in the earth or in the rock.

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 hollow; the openings of the eyes.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• hole ×3
• holes ×2
• caves ×1
• sockets ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Nahum×1
• Zechariah×1

• 1 Samuel 14:11

  The two of them showed themselves to the post of the Philistines, and the Philistines said, “Look, Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they had hidden themselves.”

• 2 Kings 12:9

  Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid and put it beside the altar, on the right as one enters the house of YHWH; and the priests who guarded the threshold would put there all the silver that was brought into the house of YHWH.

• Job 30:6

  In the ravine of the streams they must dwell, in holes of the dust and in the crags.

• Song of Songs 5:4

  My beloved put his hand through the hole, and my insides were stirred for him.

• Ezekiel 8:7

  And he brought me to the entrance of the court, and I looked, and look, a hole in the wall.

• Nahum 2:12

  The lion tore enough for his cubs and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh.

• Zechariah 14:12

  And this will be the plague with which YHWH will strike all the peoples that have waged war against Jerusalem: his flesh will waste away while he stands on his feet, and his eyes will waste away in their sockets, and his tongue will waste away in their mouth.