Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H2428: חַיִל (chayil) Definition

Strong's number
H2428
Lemma
חַיִל
Transliteration
chayil
Pronunciation
khah'-yil
Strong's definition
probably a force, whether of men, means or other resources; an army, wealth, virtue, valor, strength able, activity, ([phrase]) army, band of men (soldiers), company, (great) forces, goods, host, might, power, riches, strength, strong, substance, train, ([phrase]) valiant(-ly), valour, virtuous(-ly), war, worthy(-ily). from H2342 (חוּל);

229 instances of the word חַיִל chayil (H2428)


  • Joshua 8:3 - arose So Joshua and all the people of war to go up against Ai chose out So Joshua thirty thousand men mighty of valour and sent them away by night

  • Joshua 10:7 - ascended So Joshua from Gilgal he and all the people of war with him and all the mighty men of valour

  • Judges 3:29 - And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand and all men all lusty and all men of valour and there escaped and all men

  • Judges 6:12 - appeared And the angel of the LORD unto him and said of the LORD is with thee thou mighty man of valour

  • Judges 11:1 - Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour and he was the son of an harlot begat and Gilead Jephthah

  • Judges 18:2 - sent And the children of Dan of their family five from their coasts And the children of valour from Zorah and from Eshtaol to spy out the land and to search it and they said and to search out the land who when they came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah they lodged

  • Judges 20:44 - And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men men of valour

  • Judges 20:46 - So that all which fell of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword that day men of valour

  • Judges 21:10 - sent And the congregation thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest and commanded them saying and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword with the women and the children

  • Micah 4:13 - Arise and thresh O daughter of Zion thine horn and I will make iron thy hoofs and I will make brass and thou shalt beat in pieces people many and I will consecrate unto the LORD their gain and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth

  • Nahum 2:3 - The shield of his mighty men is made red the valiant are in scarlet shall be with flaming torches the chariots in the day of his preparation and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken

  • Nehemiah 2:9 - Then I came to the governors beyond the river and gave letters Now the king had sent Now the king captains of the army and horsemen

  • Nehemiah 4:2 - And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria And he spake Jews these feeble What do will they fortify themselves will they sacrifice will they make an end in a day will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned

  • Nehemiah 11:6 - All the sons of Perez that dwelt at Jerusalem were four hundred threescore and eight men valiant

  • Nehemiah 11:14 - And their brethren mighty men of valour an hundred twenty and eight and their overseer was Zabdiel the son of one of the great men

  • Numbers 24:18 - And Edom also shall be a possession also shall be a possession Seir for his enemies and Israel shall do valiantly

  • Numbers 31:9 - captives And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian and their little ones of all their cattle and all their flocks and all their goods and took the spoil

  • Numbers 31:14 - was wroth And Moses with the officers of the host and captains over thousands and captains over hundreds which came from the battle

  • Obadiah 1:11 - In the day that thou stoodest In the day carried away captive that the strangers his forces and foreigners entered into his gates upon Jerusalem and cast lots even thou wast as one

  • Obadiah 1:13 - Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity yea thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity