חֲוִילָה
Chăvîylâh · H2341 · Hebrew · proper noun · 7 occurrences
This name belongs to 2 people
- Havilahdescendant of Cush2 verses
- Havilahson of Joktan2 verses
Place
Meanings
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Havilah
Man; son of Cush, descendant of Ham
ExamplesGenesis 10:7 The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
1 Chronicles 1:9 The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raama were Sheba and Dedan.
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Havilah
Havilah, son of Joktan and descendant of Shem, regarded as founder of the ethnic group of the same name
ExamplesGenesis 10:29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all of these were the sons of Joktan.
1 Chronicles 1:23 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.
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Havilah
A region possibly in Arabia, surrounded by the river Pishon and known for fragrant resins and precious stones
ExamplesGenesis 2:11 The name of the first is Pishon; it flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
Genesis 25:18 They settled from Havilah to Shur which is east of Egypt going toward Assyria; he settled in defiance of all his relatives.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- בֵּןson 2
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִןfrom 3
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Names of People003001007
- Havilah is the name of a son of Cush and of a son of Joktan, listed in the Table of Nations (Genesis 10:7, 10:29).
- Names of Locations003001010
- Havilah also names a land, associated with gold, encircled by the river Pishon flowing out of Eden (Genesis 2:11).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2341. Chavilah חֲוִילָה proper name, of a territory (√ dubious DlPa 12 suggests חוֺל…
חֲוִילָה proper name, of a territory (√ dubious DlPa 12 suggests חוֺל sand-land, downs, as Hebrew popular etymology, MV11give it as actual etymology; StaThLZ Apr. 28, 1894, 235 compares this, as well as חוֺל sand, with Arabic soft mud, [dampsand]) — הַחֲוִילָה אֶרֶץ Gen 2:11 (surrounded or bordered — סבב — by river Pishon; noted for excellent gold, bdellium and shoham-stone); elsewhere without article חֲוִילָה Gen 10:7 = 1Ch 1:9 as a 'son' of Cush (between סְבָא and סַבְתָּה); but also as a 'son' of יָקְטָן, a descendant of Shem Gen 10:29 = 1Ch 1:23 (between אוֺפִיר and יוֺבָב); ׳מֵח עַדשֿׁוּר Gen 25:18 said of limits of Ishmaelitish territory; compare same limits of Amalek 1Sa 15:7 (but dubious; We reads טֵילָם, compare 1Sa 15:4 and see Dr; GlaserSkizze ii, 326 reads חֲכִילָה as 1Sa 23:19; 1Sa 26:1, 1Sa 26:3). — Most have supposed several regions named ׳ח to be indicated in these passages: — e.g. Thes.
1. Arabian shore of Persian Gulf Gen 10:29 etc. 2. Ethiopian coast Gen 10:7 etc. 3. India Gen 2:11 (regarded as indefinite extension of 1). DiGen 10:7 distinguishes 1 and 2 either as quite distinct, or as different settlements of one great people, and (on Gen 2:14) thinks that ח ארץ ׳כל Gen 2:11 implies vague extension eastward. DlPa 12 ff.57ff. identification ׳ח in all passages with northeast part of Syrian desert, so EMeyGeschichte. Alterth. i. 224; GlaserSkizze ii. 323 ff. with central and northeast Arabia. The question is still undecided.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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