H2428 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)


  • 2 Chronicles 16:8 - Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims host a huge chariots and horsemen many with very yet because thou didst rely on the LORD he delivered them into thine hand

  • 1 Samuel 16:18 - Then answered one of the servants and said Behold I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite that is cunning in playing and a mighty valiant man and a man of war and prudent in matters and a man and a comely and the LORD

  • 2 Chronicles 17:2 - And he placed forces and in the cities of Judah in all the fenced And he placed garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim had taken which Asa his father

  • Jeremiah 17:3 - O my mountain in the field thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil I will give and thy high places for sin throughout all thy borders

  • 2 Samuel 17:10 - And he also that is valiant and they which be with him are valiant is as the heart is as the heart of a lion melt melt knoweth for all Israel is a mighty man that thy father And he also that is valiant and they which be with him are valiant

  • 2 Chronicles 17:13 - business And he had much in the cities of Judah of war mighty men of valour were in Jerusalem

  • 2 Chronicles 17:14 - And these are the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers Of Judah the captains of thousands Adnah the captains and with him mighty men of valour three hundred of thousands

  • 2 Chronicles 17:16 - And next him was Amasiah the son of Zichri who willingly offered himself unto the LORD and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valour

  • Ezekiel 17:17 - army with his mighty company and great make Neither shall Pharaoh for him in the war by casting up mounts and building forts to cut off persons and great

  • 2 Chronicles 17:17 - And of Benjamin a mighty man of valour Eliada and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand

  • 1 Samuel 17:20 - rose up early And David in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper and took had commanded as Jesse him and he came to the trench as the host was going forth to the fight and shouted for the battle

  • 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

  • 1 Chronicles 18:9 - heard Now when Tou king of Hamath had smitten how David all the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah

  • 1 Samuel 18:17 - said And Saul to David daughter Behold my elder Merab her will I give thee to wife only be thou valiant for me and fight battles the LORD'S And Saul said Let not mine hand Let not mine hand of the Philistines

  • Exodus 18:21 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able such as fear God of truth hating covetousness and place and rulers of thousands and rulers of hundreds and rulers of fifties and rulers of tens

  • Exodus 18:25 - chose And Moses men able out of all Israel and made them heads over the people and rulers of thousands and rulers of hundreds and rulers of fifties and rulers of tens

  • Psalms 18:32 - It is God that girdeth me with strength and maketh perfect my way

  • Psalms 18:39 - For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle thou hast subdued under me those that rose up

  • 1 Chronicles 20:1 - And it came to pass that after was expired the year And it came to pass that after go out that kings led forth And Joab the power of the army and wasted the country of the children of Ammon and came and besieged Rabbah But David tarried at Jerusalem smote And Joab Rabbah and destroyed

  • 1 Kings 20:1 - And Benhadad kings of Syria gathered all his host and there were thirty and two kings with him and horses and chariots and he went up and besieged Samaria and warred

  • Job 20:15 - riches He hath swallowed down and he shall vomit them up again of his belly shall cast them out God

  • Job 20:18 - for shall he restore That which he laboured and shall not swallow it down according to his substance shall the restitution be and he shall not rejoice

  • 1 Kings 20:19 - came out of the city So these young men of the princes of the provinces and the army which followed

  • 1 Kings 20:25 - And number like the army like the army that thou hast lost for horse for horse and chariot and chariot and we will fight them in the plain and surely we shall be stronger than they And he hearkened unto their voice and did so

  • 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

  • Job 21:7 - Wherefore do the wicked live become old yea are mighty in power

  • 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

  • 2 Samuel 22:33 - God is my strength and power and he maketh perfect my way

  • 2 Samuel 22:40 - For thou hast girded me with strength to battle against me hast thou subdued them that rose up

  • 2 Chronicles 23:14 - brought out Then Jehoiada For the priest the captains of hundreds that were set over the host and said brought out her not in the house and whoso followeth Slay with the sword and said For the priest Slay her not in the house of the LORD

  • 2 Samuel 23:20 - And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada the son man of a valiant who had done many acts of Kabzeel also and slew two lionlike men of Moab he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow

  • 2 Samuel 24:2 - said For the king to Joab the captain of the host which was with him Go now through all the tribes of Israel from Dan even to Beersheba and number of the people that I may know the number of the people

  • 2 Samuel 24:4 - prevailed word Notwithstanding the king's And Joab and against the captains of the host went out And Joab and against the captains of the host from the presence Notwithstanding the king's to number the people of Israel

  • 2 Samuel 24:9 - gave up And Joab the sum of the number of the people unto the king and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand and the men valiant that drew the sword and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand and the men

  • 2 Kings 24:14 - And he carried away all Jerusalem and all the princes and all the mighty men of valour even ten thousand and all the craftsmen and smiths none remained save the poorest sort of the people of the land

  • 2 Kings 24:16 - And all the men of might even seven a thousand and craftsmen and smiths a thousand all that were strong and apt for war brought even them the king of Babylon captive of Babylon

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

  • 2 Chronicles 24:23 - And it came to pass at the end of the year came up that the host of Syria against him and they came to Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the princes from among the people from among the people all the spoil and sent of them unto the king of Damascus

  • 2 Chronicles 24:24 - with a small company of men came For the army of the Syrians and the LORD delivered into their hand For the army great a very because they had forsaken and the LORD God of their fathers against Joash So they executed judgment

  • 2 Kings 25:1 - year And it came to pass in the ninth of his reign day of the month in the tenth in the tenth day of the month came that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon he and all his host against Jerusalem and pitched against it and they built forts against it round about

  • 2 Kings 25:5 - pursued And the army of the Chaldees after the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho And the army were scattered

  • 2 Chronicles 25:6 - He hired out of Israel also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour also an hundred talents of silver

  • 2 Kings 25:10 - the walls of Jerusalem round about brake down And all the army of the Chaldees that were with the captain of the guard

  • 2 Kings 25:23 - heard And when all the captains of the armies governor that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah there came had made Gedaliah to Mizpah even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and Johanan the son of Careah and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite

  • 2 Kings 25:26 - arose And all the people both small and great and the captains of the armies and came to Egypt for they were afraid of the Chaldees

  • 1 Chronicles 26:6 - Also unto Shemaiah his son born his son that ruled throughout the house of their father for they were mighty men of valour

  • 1 Chronicles 26:7 - The sons of Shemaiah Othni and Rephael and Obed Elzabad whose brethren The sons were strong Elihu and Semachiah

  • 1 Chronicles 26:8 - All these of the sons of Obededom All these of the sons and their brethren men able for strength for the service were threescore and two of Obededom

  • 1 Chronicles 26:9 - And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren had sons strong eighteen

  • 2 Chronicles 26:11 - Moreover Uzziah had an host men of fighting that went out to war by bands according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler by the hand of Hananiah captains one of the king's

  • Ezekiel 26:12 - And they shall make a spoil of thy riches and make a prey of thy merchandise and they shall break down thy walls houses thy pleasant and destroy thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water and they shall lay

  • 2 Chronicles 26:12 - The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred

  • 2 Chronicles 26:13 - And under their hand was an army three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred that made war power was an army to help the king against the enemy

  • 2 Chronicles 26:17 - went in after And Azariah priests priests of the LORD him and with him fourscore men that were valiant

  • 1 Chronicles 26:30 - And of the Hebronites Hashabiah and his brethren men of valour a thousand and seven hundred were officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan westward in all the business of the LORD and in the service of the king

  • 1 Chronicles 26:31 - Among the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief Among the Hebronites according to the generations of his fathers year In the fortieth of the reign of David they were sought for and there were found among them mighty men of valour at Jazer of Gilead

  • 1 Chronicles 26:32 - And his brethren men of valour were two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers made rulers David of the king over the Reubenites the Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh and affairs pertaining to God and affairs of the king

  • Ezekiel 27:10 - They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army of war the shield and helmet they hanged in thee they set forth thy comeliness

  • Ezekiel 27:11 - The men of Arvad with thine army upon thy walls round about and the Gammadims were in thy towers their shields they hanged upon thy walls round about perfect thy beauty

  • 1 Chronicles 28:1 - assembled And David all the princes of Israel all the princes of the tribes all the princes by course that ministered of the king all the princes over the thousands all the princes over the hundreds all the princes over all the substance and possession of the king and of his sons with the officers and with the mighty men and with the mighty men and with all the valiant men unto Jerusalem

  • Ezekiel 28:4 - With thy wisdom and with thine understanding and hast gotten thee riches and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures

  • Ezekiel 28:5 - By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased because of thy riches is lifted up and thine heart because of thy riches

  • 2 Chronicles 28:6 - slew For Pekah men of Remaliah in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand day in one men which were all valiant because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers

  • Ezekiel 29:18 - Son of man Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army for the service a great against Tyrus every head was made bald and every shoulder was peeled yet had he no wages his army against Tyrus for the service caused

  • Ezekiel 29:19 - Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I will give unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon the land of Egypt and he shall take her multitude and take her spoil and take her prey and it shall be the wages for his army

  • Isaiah 30:6 - The burden of the beasts of the south into the land of trouble and anguish from whence come the young and old lion the viper and fiery flying they will carry upon the shoulders of young asses their riches upon the bunches of camels and their treasures to a people that shall not profit

  • Proverbs 31:3 - Give unto women not thy strength nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings

  • 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

  • Proverbs 31:10 - woman a virtuous Who can find is far above rubies for her price

  • 1 Samuel 31:12 - arose men All the valiant all night and took and the bodies of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan and came to Jabesh and burnt

  • 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

  • Job 31:25 - If I rejoiced was great because my wealth much had gotten and because mine hand

  • Proverbs 31:29 - Many daughters have done virtuously but thou excellest

  • Jeremiah 32:2 - army For then the king of Babylon's besieged Jerusalem and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison house For then the king of Judah's

  • 2 Chronicles 32:21 - sent And the LORD an angel which cut off all the mighty men of valour and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria So he returned with shame of face to his own land And when he was come into the house of his god they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword

  • Ezekiel 32:31 - shall see Pharaoh them and shall be comforted over all his multitude slain by the sword Pharaoh and all his army saith the Lord GOD

  • Deuteronomy 33:11 - Bless LORD his substance the work of his hands and accept smite through the loins again against him and of them that hate not again

  • 2 Chronicles 33:14 - Now after this he built a wall without cities of David on the west side of Gihon in the valley even to the entering in gate at the fish and compassed about Ophel and raised it up a very great height and put captains of war cities in all the fenced of Judah

  • Psalms 33:16 - There is no king saved by much of an host a mighty man is not delivered by much strength

  • Psalms 33:17 - is a vain thing An horse for safety any by his great strength neither shall he deliver

  • Jeremiah 34:1 - The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion and all the people fought against Jerusalem and against all the cities thereof saying

  • Jeremiah 34:7 - army When the king of Babylon's fought against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left against Lachish and against Azekah remained and against all the cities of Judah and against all the cities for these defenced

  • Jeremiah 34:21 - And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give and into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of them that seek their life and into the hand army king of Babylon's which are gone up

  • Genesis 34:29 - And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives took they captive and spoiled even all that was in the house

  • Jeremiah 35:11 - came up But it came to pass when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon into the land that we said Come Come at Jerusalem and for fear of the army of the Chaldeans and for fear of the army of the Syrians so we dwell at Jerusalem

  • Jeremiah 37:5 - army Then Pharaoh's was come forth out of Egypt heard and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem tidings of them they departed Jerusalem

  • Jeremiah 37:7 - Thus saith the LORD the God of Israel Thus saith to the king of Judah that sent you unto me to enquire army of me Behold Pharaoh's which is come forth to help you shall return into their own land to Egypt

  • Ezekiel 37:10 - So I prophesied as he commanded came me and the breath into them and they lived and stood up upon their feet army great an exceeding an exceeding

  • Jeremiah 37:10 - For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you and there remained every man but wounded every man in his tent among them yet should they rise up and burn this city with fire

  • Jeremiah 37:11 - was broken up And it came to pass that when the army of the Chaldeans from Jerusalem for fear And it came to pass that when the army of Pharaoh's

  • Jeremiah 38:3 - Thus saith the LORD be given be given This city into the hand army of the king of Babylon's which shall take

  • Ezekiel 38:4 - And I will turn thee back and put hooks into thy jaws and I will bring thee forth and all thine army horses and horsemen all of them clothed with all sorts company of armour even a great with bucklers and shields all of them handling swords

  • Ezekiel 38:15 - And thou shalt come from thy place parts out of the north people and a mighty with thee all of them riding upon horses company a great army and a mighty

  • Jeremiah 39:1 - year In the ninth of Zedekiah king of Judah month in the tenth came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem and they besieged

  • Jeremiah 39:5 - pursued army But the Chaldeans after them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho and when they had taken him they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath where he gave judgment

  • Jeremiah 40:7 - heard Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields and had committed that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam in the land and had committed and women and children and of the poor in the land of them that were not carried away captive of Babylon

  • Jeremiah 40:13 - Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields came to Gedaliah to Mizpah

  • Jeremiah 41:11 - that were with him heard But when Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces of all the evil had done that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah

  • Jeremiah 41:13 - saw Now it came to pass that when all the people which were with Ishmael Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces that were with him then they were glad