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Words
חַיִל H2428
- Home gloss
- strength
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- wealth / valour / army
- Note
- Strength, and what strength gains (Deut 8:17–18); an army (Exod 14:4); valour, "a woman of strength" (Ruth 3:11). See the note at 34:29
- Rulings
- 2, 39
Occurrences (2)
- 34:29 and all their strength and all their little ones and their women they captured and plundered, and all that was in the house.
- 47:6 The land of Egypt is before your face: in the best of the land make your father and your brothers dwell; let them dwell in the land of Goshen. And if you know—and there are among them men of strength—then you shall put them as officers of livestock over what is mine."