Word

חוֹף

chôwph · H2348 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences

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Meanings

seacoast

Area along the coast

Examples
Genesis 49:13 “Zebulun will reside at the seashore; And he shall be a harbor for ships, And his flank shall be toward Sidon.
Deuteronomy 1:7 ‘Turn and set out on your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Negev, by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
Joshua 9:1 Now it came about when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, the lowland, and on all the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard about it,
people living at the seacoast

Literally: seacoast, but extended to the people living in that area; hence: people; living along the coast of the sea

Examples
Jeremiah 47:7 “How can it be quiet, When the LORD has given it an order? Against Ashkelon and against the sea shore— There He has summoned it.”

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

7 occurrences in 2 groups

יָםsea 6
אֳנִיָּהship 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

הוּאhe, she, it 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

6 occurrences in 3 groups

לto/for 5
בin/on/with 2
אֵלto, toward 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

שְׁאֵרִיתremnant, rest 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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Near synonyms 1 word

שָׂפָה sâphâh · H8193 · lip, mouth: Hebrew שָׂפָה can denote the edge or shore of a body of water (e.g., sea, river), overlapping with חוֹף in the sense of waterside boundary, though שָׂפָה is broader (any edge/lip) while חוֹף is specifically maritime.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Land001002002: The noun names the seacoast or shoreline, the strip of land bordering the sea, as Zebulun is said to "reside at the seashore" and be a haven for ships (Genesis 49:13).
People001001003: A coastal region's shore is closely tied to the people and territory dwelling along it, as in the description of the coastal peoples and lands Israel is to possess (Deuteronomy 1:7).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2348. choph חוֺף noun [masculine] shore, coast (as surrounding, enclosing) — ׳ח only…

H2348. choph
חוֺף noun [masculine] shore, coast (as surrounding, enclosing) — ׳ח only construct Gen 49:13 (twice in verse) + 5 t.: — shore of sea ׳ח הַיָּם Deu 1:7; Jos 9:1 (both D), Jdg 5:17; Jer 47:7; Eze 25:16; ׳ח יַמִּים Gen 49:13 (poem); אֳנִיּוֺת ׳ח Gen 49:13 the shore of ships, i.e. to which ships come.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

People1 occurrence Land6 occurrences

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0